The left took over in the USA and worked to undo what was done in Europe, particularly the part where the EU comes on the scene. Remember, it was Kaiser Wilhelm II that envisioned the existence of “a United States of Europe against America”, and that dream did not die.
Eh, I would have said more that it was Lenin and Trotsky’s dream. Don’t forget that the EU was the brainchild of Lenin and Trotsky if this is to be believed:
THE [European ]UNION CAN MAKE A VITAL CONTRIBUTION to the reform of the international economic architecture and to the establishment of a mechanism for collective governance.
From: Commission of the European Communities
Brussels 9.2.2000 [COM (2000) 154 final]
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, The Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions:
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2000-2005
“SHAPING THE NEW EUROPE”
Writing in The Spectator (London) of 5th February 2000 John Laughland stated that “The West is now on the verge of achieving that of which Lenin and Trotsky dreamed in 1917. For the point is not to replace nation states with a European or world superstate. It is instead to achieve the old Marxist dream of abolishing statehood altogether”