Donald Trump’s historic victory over Kamala Harris has not just seen the defeat of her and her team, but also of the abject liberal consensus that unites the Western media and their political classes. Between them, they have persistently deluded themselves with their own fantasies about the nature of mankind. Their childish fixation with undefended welfare states, open borders, migrants and “human rights” has reduced much of the Western world to a series of refugee camps for citizens of failed states across the globe, from Pakistan to Vietnam, from the Congo to Mexico.
Why would not people from those pitiful countries choose to flee to North America and Europe? Are not the political classes that run so much of the West more interested in protecting the rights of illegal migrants than the rights of their own natives and the cultural homogeneity of their own peoples? Far from being wrong to make the trek across Africa and South America, migrants have been assured by Western courts that there is every reason to become an illegal in Europe, the USA or Canada. Moreover, there is an entire caste of state-paid lawyers, along with many volunteer-liberals in the media and academe, anxious to represent the interests of the illegals and oppose the interests of their homelands. This is surely one of the most absurd examples of identity-denial and existential dysfunctionality in world history, and its primary authors were the “liberal” media.
So naturally, the scandalous and wholly corrupt prosecution of Donald Trump before a partisan judge and a jury that was almost hand-picked to convict did not shock members of the “liberal” media. Quite the reverse. They continue to portray the former President in the most pejorative language possible. This was an attempted career-assassination by legal means within a court of law, followed by real assassination-attempt by the kind of malleable dupe such media brainwashing will usually activate. His shot was incredibly good for an amateur: merely that the target changed the angle of his head at the precise moment is the single miraculous reason why Trump survived to continue the campaign, and very probably why the US did not slide into the civil war that the liberal media appeared to seek.
Such a shocking attack on democracy would – had the target not been Trump – have caused the media to calm their language and moderate their partisanship. The opposite was the case. The legacy-media across the USA, from New York and Washington to Los Angeles intensified their attacks on him as if the assassination attempt had never occurred. Quite simply, Western democracy has never seen anything to compare with since the rise of the Nazis and the murders of political rivals such as Rathenau and Strasser, with the clear approval of the right-wing German press. Unsurprisingly, there was a second attempt on Trump’s life, and I admit this frankly, I was genuinely surprised at the refusal of the mainstream media then to moderate their language about Trump. I had not grasped the scale of the hatred that was now consuming American liberal life.
Meanwhile, the most absurd news story was the arrival of North Korean combat troops in mainland Europe. That is how abject Europe has become under the leadership of the EU and NATO. History will scarcely be able to believe that whereas the US component of that farce, the Democratic Party, was overthrown at the very first electoral opportunity, the European component – namely Ursula von der Leyen was reappointed, though not re-elected. The EU does not trust its peoples sufficiently to entrust them with the right to select its leaders. The USA again stands for the USA. What on earth does the EU stand for?
After all, Putin did not arrive in the Kremlin the day before yesterday. He has been a very visible criminal and murderer for this entire century. Likewise President Xi. Kim Jong Un has been in power in North Korea for “only” thirteen years – which is a year longer than Hitler had been in power when he attended to his own final obsequies. All the warning that the West could possibly have wanted has been lavishly supplied by its enemies, to which Europe and North America replied with the awesome trio of Biden, Trudeau and von der Leyen. By contrast, after Munich, the much-reviled Neville Chamberlain reintroduced conscription to Britain, vastly increased the defence budgets and ordered the mass production of the fighters and bombers that were in the skies over Germany when Hitler’s final bunkerfest took place.
Trump was not the cause of the deep schisms in American life, which though intensely American in their expression, are also reflected in the divisions that have occurred in western Europe. Simply, these have been largely the product of the arrival into ownership of both the various states and their cultures by the 1960s generation, who scorned patriotism and revered multiculturalism. These people preached respect for other people’s culture and contempt for their own, and though they were in the elite in all societies, their opinions were not shared by the non-elites, who for the most part loved their homelands, their cultures and their own societies. However, the new elites effectively owned the language, meaning that they could isolate critics by calling them racists, xenophobes, reactionaries.
That sort of nonsense could only survive for so long, and the shelf-life of anti-patriotic multiculturalism is now over. Every country in Europe, with the exception of Britain, is rediscovering the pleasure of being who they are. Likewise in the USA: the days of Americans apologising for being America are over; and maybe it is time for Europeans to remember why the Iron Curtain did not stand on the shores of Calais.
The country that was culturally and militarily closest to the USA, the UK, is now officially out of step with the rest of Europe. Incredibly, the British Labour government even sent a hundred volunteers to work for Harris. How many votes did this gain? Probably thousands, and all for Trump. Even best friends should never involve themselves in a family dispute, and as for the former imperial power sensing its missionaries to teach the natives of its former colonies the error of their ways – well, look who’s putting White House stickers on his luggage.
We cannot, thank God, know how badly Harris would have handled the world-crises that are now forming a queue around the block. But at least amid the rubble of a bitter electoral campaign stands the figure of by far the finer candidate. The most extraordinary comeback in American political history has seen the return to power of the President who nearly changed the map of the Middle East with the Abrahamic Accords, and hypothetically anyway, whose presence in the White House might well have prevented Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. What lies ahead for Ukraine is unknown, but that terrible war must not be fought until that unfortunate country is an unpeopled wasteland. Nationally, the US will again prioritise energy independence, and internationally, will insist that Europe finally show clear evidence that it takes its defence seriously.
Moreover, possibly, just possibly, the US Democratic machine will henceforth cease looking for candidates according to the wealth of their diversity-credentials rather their qualities as a human being. Is that not what a certain black leader, though using slightly different words, asked of his country nearly sixty years ago? Now is the time to Trump that King.
Kevin Myers is an Irish journalist, author and broadcaster. He has reported on the wars in Northern Ireland, where he worked throughout the 1970s, Beirut and Bosnia.
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