{"id":4067,"date":"2018-11-30T04:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/30\/the-threat-of-populism\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T04:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:25:34","slug":"the-threat-of-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/30\/the-threat-of-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Threat of Populism"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does populism threaten?<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a threat to a leftist internationalism that rejects national borders and denies to nations the right to preserve their cultures, the right to stop illegal immigration, and the right to select those immigrants who are most likely to prove to be a net asset to the host country, and most likely to assimilate. There needn't be anything white supremacist or white nationalist about populism. (By the way, white supremacism and white nationalism are plainly different: a white nationalist needn't be a white supremacist.)  And of course there needn't be anything racist or xenophobic or bigoted about either nationalism or populism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Populism in the Trumpian style is not a threat to liberal democracy as the Founders envisioned it, but a threat to the leftist internationalism I have just limned and which contemporary 'liberals' confuse with the liberal democracy of the Founders. It is also quite telling that these 'liberals' constantly use the word 'democracy' as if it is something wonderful indeed, but they almost never mention that the USA is a democratic republic<\/em>.  Our republic has a stiff backbone of core principles and meta-principles that are not up for democratic grabs, or at least are not up for easy grabs: the Constitution can be amended but it is not easy, nor should it be. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those who think that democracy is a wonderful thing ought to realize that Sharia can be installed democratically. This is underway<\/a> in Belgium. Brussels could be Muslim within 20 years.  Let enough Muslims infiltrate and then they will decide who 'the people' are and who are not 'the people.'  The native Belgians will then have been displaced. Ain't democracy wonderful?<\/span><\/p>\n

Let enough illegal aliens flood in, give them the vote, and they may decide to do away with the distinction between legal and illegal immigration as well as the one between immigration and emigration. Ever wonder why lefties like the word 'migrant?' It manages to elide both distinctions in one fell swoop.<\/span><\/p>\n

A sane and defensible populism rests on an appreciation of an insight I have aphoristically expressed as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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No comity without commonality.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There cannot be social harmony without a raft of shared assumptions and values, not to mention a shared language. There is need of "cultural coherence." A felicitous phrase, that. Our open, tolerant, Enlightenment culture cannot cohere and survive if Sharia-supporting Muslims are allowed to immigrate. For their ultimate goal is not to assimilate to our ways, but to impose their ways on us, eventually replacing us. <\/span><\/p>\n

Can you show I'm wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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