{"id":14261,"date":"2026-07-10T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14261"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:12:50","slug":"the-fall-of-france-and-the-folly-of-immigration-without-assimilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/the-fall-of-france-and-the-folly-of-immigration-without-assimilation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of France and the Folly of Immigration without Assimilation"},"content":{"rendered":"

France’s Long Slide<\/a> “is an excerpt from \u00c9ric Zemmour\u2019s book,\u00a0The Suicide of France: The Quiet Revolution That Destroyed a Nation<\/em><\/a>, which was translated by Nathan Pinkoski and will be published by Encounter Books on July 14.” Zemmour offers a perceptive take on rhe MAGA movement’s two phases separated by Trump’s 2020-2024 ‘sabbatical.’ Zemmour appreciates Trump’s world-historical significance.<\/p>\n

Excerpts from the excerpt:<\/p>\n

. . . in Arab-Muslim civilization, the process [of civilization] that Elias describes has never happened, and passions, impulses, emotions have continued to be suppressed by ferocious, brutal reprisals. When people who have learned to control themselves encounter, on the same soil, those who expect fierce and brutal reprisals that never come, it\u2019s a safari for the latter, where the people who have undergone Elias\u2019s \u201cprocess of civilization\u201d become game. Against them, anything goes.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The existential anguish of the French people in the face of their disappearance is finally being taken seriously. The \u201cgreat replacement\u201d is no longer marginalized as a literary fad or a conspiracy theory. The French people\u2019s desire to emancipate themselves from the State\u2019s shackles, standards, and taxes, which enslave them without protecting them, is also recognized by all. Ideological victory has not led to political victory, but we know that it always takes time to move from one to the other.<\/p>\n

We saw this in the United States. Trump\u2019s unexpected success in the 2016 presidential election had caused nothing irreversible. Nobody was really ready: neither the candidate\u2019s teams, nor the president. Nor, doubtless, the country itself. The triumph of 2024 has a completely different significance. The MAGA camp engaged in a veritable counterrevolution. A counterrevolution in the sense of the \u201cCounter-Reformation\u201d of the Council of Trent after the Protestant revolution. I don\u2019t think the comparison is excessive. The revolution brought about by the Left in the 1960s tore America away from its age-old history, like a river diverted from its course. France, as we have seen in this book, followed exactly the same path in the 1970s. This revolution, which started in America, set fire to the whole of the West. It was therefore necessary for the counterrevolution to start from America too, if it is to have any chance of prevailing. <\/em>[emphasis added.]<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The 21st century will be terrible: it will be a telluric mix between the 19th century and the Middle Ages. It will see the return of states, peoples, and nations, a confrontation between great powers, where \u201cforce takes precedence over law,\u201d in Bismarck\u2019s famous phrase, and where the game between European rivals, France, England, and Germany, will simply be extended to the whole world, with these new players: China, the United States, Russia, India, and Turkey. It will see the return of religious fanaticism carried out by Islam, as in the 7th century, with its cohort of violence, intolerance, sacrilege, and superstition; with tribalism, pillage, massacres, mass rape, obscurantism, and irrationality.<\/p>\n

The time has come for every people, for every continent, to return to the very essence of their civilization.<\/strong> This is already happening all over the planet: Russians are rediscovering Orthodoxy and the tsars, even when they were Red; China is returning to the teachings of Confucius, India to Buddha, Islam to Mohammed and the Ummah, Turkey to the Koran and the Ottoman Empire. All of them are returning to their deepest identities in order to tear themselves away from Western universalism, which they experience\u2014partly with good reason\u2014as a dispossession, an illusion, a subjection. Only Europe and the West are slow to reclaim their roots, perverted as they are by a corrupted universalism and a poorly digested humanism. Paradoxically, this Western universalism, once the weapon of European imperialism, has now become its prison, even its deadly poison. In the United States, the Trump network, with Vice President JD Vance as its mouthpiece, no longer hesitates to proclaim the greatness of Western civilization, Jewish prophecy and Catholic majesty, Greek rationality and Roman law.<\/strong> Some European countries, often the smallest, in the east but also in the west of the continent, have understood the danger and are no longer deluded by the suicidal mirages of a nihilistic universalism. That leaves the great European nations, France, Germany, and England, who are the last to understand where the wind of renewal is blowing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through word and deed, I\u2019m fighting with all my might to put France back at the heart of this struggle to return to our roots, to the roots of our Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman identity, to our genius for freedom, rationality, and beauty. <\/strong>[emphasis added]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

France’s Long Slide “is an excerpt from \u00c9ric Zemmour\u2019s book,\u00a0The Suicide of France: The Quiet Revolution That Destroyed a Nation, which was translated by Nathan Pinkoski and will be published by Encounter Books on July 14.” Zemmour offers a perceptive take on rhe MAGA movement’s two phases separated by Trump’s 2020-2024 ‘sabbatical.’ Zemmour appreciates Trump’s … Continue reading “The Fall of France and the Folly of Immigration without Assimilation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,180,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-decline-of-the-west","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14262,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions\/14262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}