A conservative political pundit says recent events in Italy and Spain are a sign that President Donald Trump's populism is not confined to the borders of the United States.

Recently, two wealthy northern provinces of Italy passed a pair of referendums seeking greater autonomy from Rome. In addition, voters in the neighboring Lombardy and Veneto regions want local control over such government functions as education, immigration, security and the environment, as well as retaining more tax revenue.

The head of the right-leaning North League Party, which is spearheading the effort for more independence, says that these measures reflect the same drive for greater self-determination that has been witnessed in Spain's Catalonia region.

But unlike the October 1 independence vote in Catalonia, the non-binding Lombardy and Veneto referendums didn't ask voters if they want to break away from Italy. Still, they believe that the government in Rome is inefficient and that money from the north is siphoned off to subsidize the south.

Gary Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families asserts that this is a backlash to globalism and centralized control in multiple countries.

"We saw a backlash to globalism here in November of 2016, and I think it has not peaked,” Bauer reasoned. “I think we're going to continue to see these conflicts and these divisions continue. And you'll see more and more what's going on in Spain and in Italy. I think you're going to see more and more people win on what's being called a populist nationalist agenda."

Bauer also notes that Trump is a symptom – not the cause – of this populist nationalist movement that has swept over a good part of western Europe.