Three European nations held elections Sunday that ratified a rightward shift and further realigned the continent’s political tectonic plates. But if you’re a captive of our legacy media, you could be forgiven for believing that Donald Trump is losing elections in far-off places where he is not on the ballot.

Take the Washington Post’s analysis of the presidential election in Romania. It presented the losing candidate, George Simion, as a Trump avatar who crashed to earth because he was too MAGA, or at least too MRGA.

Simion, the Washington Post wrote, is a “nationalist” who “during the campaign portrayed his movement as championing conservative values like patriotism, sovereignty and the family, and who styled himself as the Romanian analogue to U.S. President Donald Trump.”

The election was a choice between “East or West,” according to the Washington Post.

NPR, which, unlike the Washington Post, you subsidize whether you like it or not, similarly said the contest was “seen as a litmus test over whether populist nationalism or Western democracy would prevail.”

Now, that is NPR — a classical regurgitation of progressive cant. It is questionable, if not contentious or, worse, wrong, to present “populist nationalism,” whatever that means to NPR’s ideologically inbred news desk,........

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