在唐纳德·特朗普的第二任期内，美国对欧洲展现出前所未有的敌意，去年11月发布的《国家安全战略》甚至抨击欧洲因过度监管和接纳大规模移民而陷入“文明消亡”。这种好战态度根植于新右翼（即“让美国再次伟大”运动智囊圈）的三重交叉诉求：首先是地缘现实主义者的收缩战略，主张抛弃冷战式意识形态同盟，要求欧洲自行承担防务开支，并将美国重心转向制衡中国或巩固西半球霸权；其次是国家保守派的“文明保卫”叙事，将白人基督教文明视为受围困的堡垒，利用埃隆·马斯克等科技巨头旗下平台夸大穆斯林移民威胁，尽管穆斯林仅占西欧人口的6%至10%（在伦敦和巴黎等大都市约为15%），且当地治安并不逊于美国大都市。
第三重批判则将言论自由意识形态与商业利益深度捆绑，矛头直指欧盟及其监管体制。特朗普政府猛烈抨击欧盟的《数字服务法》（DSA）侵害美国科技巨头与用户的言论自由，众议院司法委员会专门就其对美国创新与言论的威胁举行听证会，白宫甚至在上周正式申请介入马斯克在欧洲法院就X平台被罚款1.2亿欧元（约1.37亿美元）提起的诉讼。无论是谴责欧盟对反同性恋圣经言论的司法起诉，还是反对对硅谷跨国企业的巨额规制，MAGA派与传统建制派保守势力一致将庞大、多边且推行进步主义的欧盟视作战略靶子。
新右翼对欧洲展现出复杂的“爱恨交织”心理：一方面将其视为西方文明传统的精神摇篮，将严厉批评包装为对老大陆“背离自身传统”的“严厉关爱”；另一方面又将其世俗化、高福利政策和跨性别权益视作美国国内民主党激进议程的前车之鉴。7月尤戈夫（YouGov）民调显示，MAGA共和党人对欧盟的好感与反感比例为30%比44%（全体共和党人为32%比40%），远低于民主党的62%对9%，但对具体欧洲国家的态度并未彻底决裂。尽管部分国会建制派仍对后特朗普时代的跨大西洋纽带抱有幻想，但随着美国右翼持续将国内文化焦虑投射于欧洲，两大洲的战略与文化分歧注定将进一步加深。
During Donald Trump’s second term, Washington has adopted an overtly confrontational posture toward Europe, exemplified by the November National Security Strategy excoriating European governments for enabling "civilisational erasure" through intrusive market regulation and mass migration. Intellectual circles within the MAGA "New Right" channel this grievance through three distinct lenses: foreign-policy realists demanding a liquidation of cold-war commitments to shift defense burdens onto European capitals while prioritizing China and the Western Hemisphere; cultural national-conservatives portraying European secularism and demography as an existential warning, amplified transatlanticly via platforms like Elon Musk’s X; and an anti-Muslim narrative inflating threats across western Europe, where Muslims comprise merely 6-10% of aggregate populations and roughly 15% in major metropolises like London and Paris.
A third line of assault fuses commercial self-interest with digital free-expression doctrines, taking direct aim at European regulatory oversight. The Trump administration and the House Judiciary Committee have launched aggressive campaigns against the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), alleging unlawful censorship of conservative speech on American platforms and economic sabotage against domestic technological champions. Signaling this formal alliance between executive power and Big Tech, the administration intervened at the European Court of Justice to challenge a €120m ($137m) regulatory penalty levied against X under the DSA, uniting realists and cultural warriors against the European Union as an meddlesome, progressive multilateral entity antithetical to American capitalism.
This ideological offensive reflects a fraught love-hate relationship: New Right thinkers romanticize traditional European high culture while rebuking modern European states for abandoning their Christian heritage, framing their hostility as necessary tough love. July YouGov polling shows MAGA Republicans view the EU unfavorably by 44% to 30% (compared to 40% to 32% among all Republicans and 9% to 62% among Democrats), though baseline affinity toward individual European nations remains relatively durable. Even though congressional internationalists anticipate a post-Trump transatlantic reconciliation, diverging ideological paths appear entrenched as the American right continually projects its domestic culture-war dread—over secularization, generous welfare states, and progressive social legislation—onto modern Europe.
Source: Why MAGA hates and loves Europe
Subtitle: Three big reasons explain the New Right’s hostility to Europeans
Dateline: Oct 1st 2026\n