Why Do the Greeks Love Donald Trump So Much?

Maybe the left-wing Greek Trump supporters are onto something, at least on foreign policy

I spent the past two weeks on my ancestral island of Rhodes, Greece, helping my cousin settle his late father’s estate. It’s no surprise that everybody—and I mean literally everybody—wanted to talk about this month’s US presidential election. Greece has long had an anti-American streak stemming from US support for the 1967-1974 military dictatorship that killed, tortured, and imprisoned thousands of people just because of their political views. Indeed, the governing conservative New Democracy Party wins elections only because there are so many socialist and communist parties that they split the left-wing vote and allow the conservatives to govern. But much to my surprise, every leftist I’ve spoken to, including just about everybody in my own family from the Communist KKE to the Socialist PASOK, has offered full-throated support to Donald Trump.