Douglas Murray wrote an excellent
book, published in 2017, titled: “The Strange Death of Europe.” Upon reading it
recently, I was overwhelmed by the realization that if one replaced “Europe” or
“European” with “The United States” or “American” in all his quotes and
observations, one would have the perfect description of post-Trump America. I
don’t often cite many quotes from other authors, and I hope I don’t overstep
the bounds of propriety in doing so here, but Murray was so spot-on I must
share his wisdom here. To wit:
*Murray noted that European values had “Become so wide as to
become meaninglessly shallow.”
*And that ”Europe is now deeply weighed down with guilt for
its past.”
*He stated that, due to mass immigration, “The places that
had been European gradually became somewhere else. So places dominated by
Pakistani immigrants resembled Pakistan in everything but their location, with
the recent arrivals and their children eating the food of their place of
origin, speaking the language of their place of origin and worshipping the
religion of their place of origin.”
*He also saw that this, naturally, occurred ”At the same
time Europe lost faith in its beliefs, traditions and legitimacy.”
*One of Murray’s most trenchant observations was, ”All the
time Europeans found ways to pretend this could work.”
*He realized that all of this led to “The problem in Europe of
an existential tiredness and a feeling that perhaps for Europe the story has
run out.” He added that this was happening at “precisely the moment when a new
society has begun to move in,” which, he said, “cannot help but lead to vast,
epochal changes.”
*Which, in turn, led to this tragic reflection: ”Had it been
possible to discuss these matters some solution might have been reached,” but
“speech and thought was constricted.” Sound familiar, conservative and
non-leftist Americans?
*The last Murray quote I’ll cite is the saddest: ”Europe
today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its
own side in an argument.” Wow. Unfortunately, that is an accurate description
of what leftists wish for America and Americans…and one which the mainstream
media, Hollywood, Academia, and Big Tech fervently share. And one which “RINOs,”
like lambs to a slaughter, meekly go along with.
If we in the West don’t recover our
sense of self—and self-worth-- there is no hope. A realistic assessment of our
history and contributions to the world should make that an easy task. However,
a realistic assessment of history is exactly what the leftists who control all
of our institutions desperately try to prevent, with great success.
President Trump tried to teach us
how to fight for ourselves again, in a gritty and imperfect world, with all the
odds against us. In doing so, he channeled our founders.
Ultimately, we let him down. Or so
it appears.
Might there still be time to Make
America Great Again? Time will tell. If not, we will witness “The Strange Death
of the United States.” And, for differing reasons, the rest of the world will then
go down the tubes, too. Yes, China, that includes you.
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