As the Winter Olympics kicked off in Italy on Friday, MS NOW’s The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle thought it would be an appropriate time to assemble a panel and examine the United States’ relationship with Europe. In a classic example of clueless news shows informing clueless protestors, progressive comedian John Fugelsang called ICE a “fascist goon squad” and declared it was obvious that Italians don’t want them there helping with security because some of them are old enough to remember the Mussolini era.
Ruhle was not discussing ICE’s role at the Olympics when she was responding to the idea that Europe can just move on from the U.S., “Like we can be like, oh, ‘they’ll have hot girl summer.’ Europe doesn’t have a super strong economy. Like, Europe—a lot of European countries do have a huge amount of right-wing influence. So. Trump dumping them isn’t like, oh, we can just let this roll. It’s very difficult.
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