"Trumpian" politics now reach Belgium!

Fake news

The Donald is one hell of a character, any bad news that could influence his policy gets the "Fake news" stamp. This is been done very consistently and it works. In the beginning, the media and alternative media laughed with it, but didn't care. John Doe had his doubts too. But after a year of his leadership, John Doe is starting to believe that it is fake news, and Trump gets what he wants. His credibility gets stronger, and that of the media gets hit!

I must say, I didn't believe this would be the outcome, but here in Europe, well, people are getting used to him and his very odd and bad mannered way of politics.

Belgian leaders copying it

Now, here in Belgium, the strongest party, is right wing, originally extreme right wing, called NVA. Now they are in power for about 3 years now, and they are starting to copy the "fake news" calls of Trump. Even the tweets sent by them are getting more and more Trumpian.

A few weeks ago, our minister for immigration gets hit by news that he lied about the relocalization of Sudanese refugees. He sent them back to Sudan, where they got tortured immediately. He denied this, but eventually the truth came out.
All of that time, his party communicated to this as it was "fake news". People believed it and changed their mind about him, and now he is even on a pedestal because of that. Unbelievable, the world upside down.
Their tactics worked and well!

Now that the storm has fallen, even though the truth came out, they target the opposition by leaking some fraudulent behaviour of an established member of the opposition and demand his retreat.
And you know what, that works too...

Morale

Morale of this story is, Trumpian tactics work. Deny everything you do wrong, despite proof. Call it "fake news" and a few days later, you go in full attack against a weak opponent. A sure win!

Sincerely,