President Donald Trump is apparently like the Greek mythological princess Cassandra. He, too, was cursed to give prophetic warnings, but people didn’t believe him.
For a decade, Trump has been encouraging France to close its borders and stop the influx of migrants from non-Western countries. His supposedly xenophobic warnings fell on deaf ears. France, like most of Europe, is led by technocrats — those who want to eliminate the nation-state model and adopt a more universal system of governance. Immigration from culturally similar European nations might have worked, but importing people from cultures hostile to the West breeds friction.
Back in 1959, former French President Charles De Gaulle used a metaphor about the Muslim immigrants pouring into France, specifically from Algeria. “Try to incorporate oil and vinegar. Shake the bottle,” he said. “After a while, they will separate again.” The cultural and religious differences were as insurmountable then as they are now. Why? Because Islamist immigrants have a mandate in their religion to bring into submission every non-Muslim they encounter.
Make no mistake, the hordes of third-world peoples rioting in the streets of France and other European nations are no accident. They are a predictable wildfire built upon anti-West ideologies like socialism and Islamofascism (in other words, the Left’s omnicause). As Victor Davis Hanson explained in a recent podcast with guest Jack Fowler, these riots have a racial and religious element to them — and the socialists are the puppet masters pulling the strings. Hanson elucidated:
There’s a racial element of hatred, and I don’t quite get it.
And the hatred, that’s why there’s no assimilation. And I think it’s the wages, Jack, of — it’s almost like all of these things we’ve just been putting fuel on. We’ve been making a big bonfire — wood, fuel, gasoline — and it got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger with the DEI, the separate graduations, the separate dorms, the hyphenated names, the cultural appropriation.
And we just — it was just insidious. We just said: Ok, that’s kind of silly. Safe spaces, yeah, we understand. Ok, if you’re blonde, you can’t have cornrows. We get that.
And then it just exploded. The match, it just exploded now, and it’s exploding in Europe. It’s exploding, as we see in this election cycle.
The French politicians want to use this cultural firebomb to solve their election troubles. President Emmanuel Macron’s party wants to garner more power while also outmaneuvering the radical socialists who have never met a riot they didn’t like and who are happy to let the discontent and violence fester.
Our Hudson Baldwin summarized this well last week:
Despite troubles in the Macron government, the extremists need to make themselves seem more electable. So they turn an otherwise normal protest into mass riots by enabling the green side, the radical Muslims, to basically have a field day destroying France. Manufacturing excess devastation with a fake narrative to elect yourself is straight out of the Nazi playbook, and it’s a truly despicable way to campaign.
In response to the riots, French socialists in Parliament, specifically Raphaël Glucksmann, have proposed amnesty to grant citizenship to the 300,000-400,000 migrants already working in France. Citizenship won’t save the country, but it might score Glucksmann some votes as well as outbid a political rival like Jean-Luc Mélencho. This measure will likely go nowhere, but what a French thing to do. The country is burning because of Islamists and socialists, and the lawmakers’ solution is making legal citizens out of the rioting foreigners.
Now France faces yet another weekend of lockdowns, street riots, boarded-up shops, and the military on call. Macron blames news outlets and social media for their role in organizing the riots and spreading propaganda, so, naturally, he is calling for more censorship. Is this to punish the offenders? Not at all. It’s just an excuse to seize control of the Internet for political capital.
The thirst for power is far more important to these French politicians than serving and protecting the people over whom they govern.
At the same time, the French people seem to realize they are on their own. Rumors of right-wing counterprotests and even armed resistance against the rioters are circulating. Will this latest bout of rioting cause a civil war? The world waits with bated breath.
