Trump’s support show for Conor McGregor is making fertile ground for the extreme right of Ireland | Justine McCarthy

MIdle Ireland feels seriously insulted by the President of the United States. On the day of San Patrizio, when the globe becomes traditionally green, by Donald Trump Official guest At the White House there was no Taoisech who brought a bowl of Shamrock, but a shot not elected recently found by a jury of the civil court responsible for rape of a woman in a hotel in Dublin. Fear and hatred of the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, who is facing civil trial in the United States For alleged sexual aggression to another woman in Florida, she is one of the most unifying forces of Ireland of Middle Ireland.

“We couldn’t think of a better guest to have with us on the day of San Patrizio,” the secretary of the Trump Karoline Leavitt press on March 17th, rubbing the salt in the wound. McGregor had access to the Pentagon, he met the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, the secretary of health, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and the National Security Councilor, Mike Waltz. In the oval office, McGregor and his family posed for photographs with the President of the United States, a man also found responsible for sexual aggression. Main in the photographs was Elon Musk, the richest individual in the world and the unleashed workplace slasher of Trump. McGregor presented Musk a box of cigars of his brand. Four days later, the Dubliner, self-creator “the notorious”, announced intends to contest The Irish presidential elections by the end of the year.

McGregor’s declaration has achieved much less attention in his country than he did internationally. The former fighter should not even get to the starting line due to a constitutional requirement for candidates Safe nominations by 20 members of the Parliament or four entire local authorities. It is extremely unlikely that it can obtain support to compete in the race to be successful Michael D HigginsThe poet and the former activist against the war that has been the much loved president in the last 14 years.

So far, the center is still in Ireland. The November elections last November returned the same Two centrist party to the government that dominated the foundation of the state. Yet the center has its oscillations. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Trumpocracy seems to believe that it can move the busty plaques by supporting McGregor.

Ireland Middle is politically in the center of the road and must not be confused with Ireland in the middle class because the frustration for the perceived political-corner-gara-gara correction for gender equality, transgender rights and immigration transcends social strata. Despite the ranking as one of the richest countries in the world, Ireland is in the grip of a protracted crisis of the homelessWith the prices of full houses full of sparkle and creaking public infrastructures. After reinventing himself from the 1990s from the gloomy Catholic Orthodoxy in tolerant modernity passing referendum which provides for divorce, the marriage between people of the same sex and abortion, it makes sense that the change has been too quick.

This creates a certain appetite for the Gospel according to JD Vance, who supports him Europe He retired from his values ​​by suppressing the online commentary and misogynist comment, prohibiting protests outside the clinics for abortion and deciding to “open the doors to millions of immigrants not warned”, as said the vice -president of the United States at the Monaco security conference in February.

McGregor does not need to become president to galvanize the small but vocal minority of Ireland on hard law. It emerged that his figuration in November 2023 when violent protests broke out in the center of Dublin after two children and their kindergarten teacher were stabbed on a road. “Ireland, we are at war“

McGregor’s visit to the Irish government was not taken into consideration, not even when, in an inexplicable departure from the normal protocol, the visit of San Patrizio di Taiseach Micheál Martin was carried out for a week. What truly incense Middle Ireland was McGregor intuitive unarticulus When he was invited to meet journalists in the Briefing room for printing the White House, claiming that a “racket for illegal immigration” was “performing the devastation” in Ireland. Martin said that McGregor’s statements were “wrong” and do not reflect the opinions of the Irish people. The Dublin Rape Crisis Center said that the visit of the White House was designed to “recycle” McGregor’s reputation.

The visit of the White House of McGregor has been described as “left”, but what could be more claim is the reason why it was invited for the day of San Patrizio and, previously, for the inauguration of Trump in January. The White House is actively courting the extreme right of Europe. A week after making a greeting similar to the Nazi one at the inauguration holidays of Trump, Musk urged the delegates in an event of the election campaign for the alternative party of Germany Für Deutschland not to let immigration will dilute their culture. The Italian Right Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and Viktor Orbán of Hungary are seen as Trump’s best friends in the EU.

Politically, Ireland It is small potatoes but as a country of English language, the most western EU member and an unsasted member is a potential door of the conversion of Europe in the Gospel of Trumpocracy. The country is particularly vulnerable due to the high density of US pharmaceutical and technological companies that swell its speakers.

Trump repeatedly complained of the EU € 13 billion taxes On Apple in Ireland and its secretary to trade, Howard Lutnick, he described the tax regime of the country’s companies such as his Favorite “Tax SCHUS”. The factor of his commercial advantage with the United States and the growing economy of Ireland would be immersed in the recession was Trump to punish him with rates. The inevitable social upheaval would have made a fertile ground for McGregor and its flower genre. The danger is real. In November, the patriarch of one of the most important criminal families approached to win a parliamentary seat in the Dáil.

Now Ireland finds itself dragged into the international swamp of toxic masculinity following the trip of the oval office of McGregor. Responding to the complaint of Tánaista Simon Harris against him and the former kickboxer Andrew Tate as “social paria”, the The latter was disturbing. “The weak men’s jealous men will do everything you need to prevent powerful men from resuming the control of the system”, has caused the influencer who is facing a charge of rape in Romania, which denies.

While Ireland keeps the nose at the sight of McGregor in the White House, he holds his breath at the sight of Trump Fanboy-Inn on him.