In
a surprise overtime victory in the finals of the Olympic men’s hockey
tournament, the Russians defeated Germany, 4-3.
But
the Russians were not permitted to have their national anthem played or flag
raised, due to a past doping scandal. So, the team ignored the prohibition and
sang out the Russian national anthem over the sounds of the Olympic anthem.
One
recalls the scene in “Casablanca,” where French patrons of Rick’s saloon stood
and loudly sang the “La Marseillaise” to drown out the “Die Wacht am Rhein”
being sung by a table of German officers.
When
the combined North-South Korean Olympic team entered the stadium, Vice
President Mike Pence remained seated and silent. But tens of thousands of Koreans
stood and cheered the unified team.
America
may provide a defensive shield for the South, but Koreans on both sides of the
DMZ see themselves as one people. And, no fool, Kim Jong Un is exploiting the
deep tribal ties he knows are there.
Watching
the Russians defiantly belt out their anthem, one recalls also the 1968 summer
Olympics in Mexico City where sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on
the podium, black gloved fists thrust skyward in a Black Power salute,
asserting their separate racial identity
Western
elites may deplore the return of nationalism. But they had best not dismiss it,
for assertions of national and tribal identity appear to be what the future is
going to be all about.
Some
attendees at the CPAC conclave this past week were appalled that Britain’s
Nigel Farage and France’s Marion Le Pen were present.
But
Farage was the man most responsible for Brexit, the historic British decision
to leave the EU. Le Pen is perhaps the most popular figure in a National Front
party that won 35 percent of the vote in the runoff election won by President
Emmanuel Macron.
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And
the most unifying stand of the NF appears to be “Let France be France!” The
French people do not want their country invaded by unassimilable millions of
migrants from Africa and the Islamic world.
They
want France to remain what she has been. Is this wrong?
Is
preservation of a country, the national family one grew up in, not
conservative?
In
Hungary and Poland, ethnonationalism, the belief that nation-states are created
and best suited to protect and defend a separate and unique people, with its
separate and unique history and culture, is already ascendant.
Globalists
may see the U.N., EU, NAFTA, TPP as stepping stones to a “universal nation” of
all races, tribes, cultures and creeds. But growing numbers in every country,
on every continent, reject this vision. And they are seeking to restore what
their parents and grand-parents had, a nation-state that is all their own.
Nationalists
like Farage, who seek to pull their countries out of socialist superstates like
the EU, and peoples seeking to secede and set up new nations like Scotland,
Catalonia, Corsica and Veneto today, and Quebec yesterday, are no more
anti-conservative than the American patriots of Lexington and Concord who also
wanted a country of their own.
Why
are European peoples who wish to halt mass migration from across the Med, to
preserve who and what they are, decried as racists?
Did
not the peoples of African and Middle Eastern countries, half a century ago,
expel the European settlers who helped to build those countries?
The
Rhodesia of Spitfire pilot Ian Smith was a jewel of a nation of 250,000 whites
and several million blacks that produced trade surpluses even when boycotted
and sanctioned by a hating world.
When
Smith was forced to yield power, “Comrade Bob” Mugabe took over and began the
looting of white Rhodesians, and led his Shona tribesmen in a slaughter of the
Matabele of rival Joshua Nkomo.
Eighty-five
percent of the white folks who lived in Rhodesia, prior to “majority rule,” are
gone from Zimbabwe. More than half of the white folks who made South Africa the
most advanced and prosperous country on the continent are gone.
Are
these countries better places than they were? For whom?
Looking
back over this 21st century, the transnational elite that envisions the endless
erosion of national sovereignty, and the coming of a new world order of open
borders, free trade and global custody of mankind’s destiny, has triggered a
counter-revolution.
Does
anyone think Angela Merkel looks like the future?
Consider
the largest countries on earth. In China, ethnonationalism, not the ruling
Communist Party, unites and inspires 1.4 billion people to displace the
Americans as the first power on earth.
Nationalism
sustains Vladimir Putin. Nationalism and its unique identity as a Hindu nation
unites and powers India.
Here,
today, it is “America First” nationalism.
Indeed,
now that George W. Bush’s crusade for democracy has ended up like Peter the
Hermit’s Children’s Crusade, what is the vision, what is the historic goal our
elites offer to inspire and enlist our people?
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