nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201112-080032-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201111s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201112-080032-0 doi eng 342 23 Mälksoo, Maria Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-7110-2050 How to Self-Castrate - Estonia, Anti-Liberal Populism, and Trump Mälksoo, Maria Verfassungsblog 2020-11-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Donald Trump’s defeat at the US presidential election has wrong-footed some of his staunchest loyalists in Central and Eastern Europe. In Estonia, the former master pupil in the CEE ‘class of democracy’, the Trumpist part of the government has suffered a kind of public nervous breakdown with a set of unrestrained remarks aired on a radio talk show on 8 November about the allegedly ‘rigged elections’ in the US and the ‘corrupt character’ of the US President-Elect Joe Biden. This crassly undiplomatic spell of verbal incontinence by the prominent representatives of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE), including two members of the government, culminated in the resignation of the Minister of the Interior Mart Helme. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism International relations Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-to-self-castrate/ raw object