But that wasn't the main point, the point was "snap elections in Germany". In other words: there are preparations for the new era that is knocking on the door. The idea that someone wants to get this over with as quickly as possible makes that obvious. Especially if they are mentioning "the inauguration'.
I am pretty sure that no one really remembers my post from something like 6 months ago. In other words at what I was aiming with my first post on the topic was that it is starting to happen that EU council will go completely to the right with snap elections in Germany.
European Council
The second picture is the key one. The size of a pie piece represents the population size of each members state, while the colors represent political orientation of the head of state. Red is labor, yellow are pro business centrist liberals, light blue is center right, dark blue are hard right national conservatives, while everything else are basically populists, extremists or perhaps independents.
So lets use some imagination and data on the issue. Germany is that huge chunk and if that chunk moves from red to light blue the red is basically completely crippled. Especially since the only thing they really have left is Spain. While in Spain labor government is barely holding and it is completely dependent on Catalan separatists. Which can walk away at anytime and on almost any topic. What leaves Denmark and Malta. Which isn't really visible if you aren't looking carefully, it is between Denmark and Poland.
On the other hand centrist liberals are also in problems. France is also a pretty big chunk and it is more and more contested by various right wingers (this thread has various posts about that). Also Belgium is currently negotiating coalition government that should push it from yellow to dark blue. What leaves Estonia and Slovenia that are barely visible (and even there things don't seem too bright on the long run for the centrists). Especially since they are dropping in ability to flip anything (kinda the same goes for labor).
The point: The labor and liberals basically correlate to Democratic party, while everything else correlates to Republican party. So with that in mind it can be observed how much further EU is going to the right than US. Because the council is basically what defines EU politics. European Commission is perhaps somewhat influential on paper but it tends to mirror the structure of the council. In US terms all of this would be kinda like Republicans with 42 governors and about 85 senators (on top of presidency). This is just so that you get better sense of what is actually a landslide.
