To a large part of the American public, Europe has become “a dirty word.” Even respectable Republicans echo Mitt Romney’s campaign promise “I do not want to become more like Europe” while the Alt-Right is promoting a visceral fear of “socialism” so as to defend American exceptionalism and encourage anti-EU populism in Europe. President Donald Trump’s call to “make America great again” is also predicated on seeing the European Union as “the enemy” which has cheated the US in trade and freeloaded to secure its defense. So as to reject the continental preference for peace, equality and civility the conservative media have been predicting the <em>Strange Death of Europe</em> – even if that has refused to happen. In the rightist discourse, Europe has become a symbol for everything it detests.