ABSTRACT
Europe's far right parties were among the most important and vocal supporters of Donald Trump during the election. The surprise victory of Donald Trump is a gift from right-wing heaven for the far right around the globe. As everyone was expecting the first directly elected far right president of the postwar era to emerge in Austria, the country that gave us Adolf Hitler, it was in the United States, key to defeating Hitler, and with no history of significant electoral success for far right parties or politicians, that the increasingly inevitable happened. Whether Trump will establish indirect ties to Europe's far right leaders, as Putin has done through various low- and high-ranking politicians of his United Russia party, remains to be seen. With Clinton defeated, and the Grand Old Party in control of all branches of government – including soon the Supreme Court – tensions will flare up again.
