{"id":108923,"date":"2025-04-03T01:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108923"},"modified":"2025-04-03T01:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T06:12:28","slug":"108923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108923","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2025\/04\/03\/the-globalist-authoritarians-are-playing-with-fire-n2654900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Globalist Authoritarians Are Playing With Fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happened with Marine Le Pen, the most popular politician in France who was just banned from standing for election on the flimsiest of pretenses, is no exception. It\u2019s becoming the rule around the West and in other places, too, where being outside the mainstream of authorized establishment left-leaning globalist politics has become criminalized.<\/p>\n<p>In some places, like the UK and Spain, it takes the form of persecuting people for saying things that those in power don\u2019t want to hear. In other places, like Germany, upstart populist parties that earned a significant number of votes are informally, and sometimes formally, marginalized and threatened with being banned. But it\u2019s the criminal persecution of leaders that is becoming the go-to.<\/p>\n<p>It happened to Bolsonaro in Brazil, Netanyahu in Israel, Georgescu in Romania, and Le Pen in France. In each of these cases, the establishment authoritarians essentially attempted to frame a politician they couldn\u2019t beat at the ballot box. Of course, their American analogs tried to do the same thing to Donald Trump here, and when that didn\u2019t work, their allies tried to murder him. Thankfully, they failed at both \u2013 with the people who instigated these atrocities too dumb to know that they are the ones who should be the most thankful they failed.<\/p>\n<p>These are not the acts of strong and confident leaders who believe in the strength and popularity of their ideology. These are the cowardly acts of authoritarians who differ from Putin not in their nature but only in their extent. They haven\u2019t thrown anybody out of a fifth-story window yet that we know of, though we don\u2019t know if they actively put the murderer who tried to kill Trump in Butler up to it \u2013 the one who tried to ambush him in Florida was an active member of their collective \u2013 but they would\u2019ve cheered if either attempt had succeeded.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, America was not so far gone that the people\u2019s choice could not prevail, though the resisters in the judiciary, the regime media, and elsewhere are doing everything they can to ensure that the man the people elected to govern can\u2019t actually exercise the powers of office.<\/p>\n<p>The European authoritarians, however, still have the ability to crush dissent. There are several reasons why, including the fact that most of the good Europeans long ago left for America, and the ones who remain are largely degraded and pathetic people. After all, Europe is an exhausted culture, too weak both morally and spiritually to come to its own defense. Its glorious cathedrals are museums now, and its armies are jokes. They can\u2019t find the will or the courage to defend themselves, and Europeans have turned over their governance to corrupt, globalist fools who invite the Third World in to complete the destruction of what was the mother of civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are saddened and sickened by them. It\u2019s difficult to explain to Americans why we should spend our treasure and put our blood on the line for nations that oppress their own people and embrace sham democracy. Even the UK, the father of our democracy, has turned into a political deadbeat dad. Why should we have a special relationship with a country that sends cops to the house of parents complaining about school policies? Under the Democrats, they tried to do that here, and we rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>We demonstrated at least a modicum of manhood in the face of this petty tyranny. But until the Europeans demonstrate their commitment to doing something about their own enslavement, it\u2019s unclear how we might help. We certainly shouldn\u2019t be protecting them from other European dictatorships \u2013 we have no interest in refereeing among oppressors. The fact that they need us to do so reflects their decision to essentially disarm and become pathetic welfare states teaming with foreign parasites and native cowards.<\/p>\n<p>In short, America cannot be expected to \u2013 and is not going to \u2013 care more about Europe than the Europeans do.<\/p>\n<p>Our response as Americans to fascist acts like the framing of Le Pen should be loud and bold condemnation and contempt. What they are doing is truly disgusting \u2013 and dangerous, too. We should say so, especially since their citizens can\u2019t without fear of a knock on the door. The European ruling class hates hearing it, especially when JD Vance goes overseas and tells them the truth to their smug, pale faces. Their fussy fury when he exposes their fake democracy and lies about freedom is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>But all they should get from us is talk. We should let them fend for themselves. They are unworthy of a special relationship, and it\u2019s impossible to frame a coherent or compelling explanation of why a single American paratrooper should die in defense of any country that refuses to allow its most popular politician to run because the establishment dislikes her platform.<\/p>\n<p>We should certainly learn the lesson here about what\u2019s going on over there, although, as we\u2019ve seen, the Democrats have tried many of the same tactics. That they\u2019ve been defeated so far is a testament to the fact that Americans are not yet completely broken. We\u2019re not ready to be serfs, and the fact that we have more guns than people provides a powerful backstop against the kind of tyranny the globalist left would love to impose in America as well.<\/p>\n<p>I shudder to think of what would have happened if Trump had been murdered or if they had succeeded in knocking him off the ballot. But I\u2019m not shuddering for my sake. If the stuff hits the fan, I and those like me will prevail. I\u2019m shuttering over the fate of the morons whose greed, corruption, and stupidity would have sparked a conflict they are utterly unprepared to fight. And I do mean fight.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happens when the ruling class uses a corrupt system to block the expression of the people\u2019s will and leaves no peaceful path for it to be heard. We are very far from that here, but if it came to that, patriots would fight for our Constitution and our freedom. The elite and their minions? Who exactly would do their fighting? Who is willing to die to enact the Green New Deal, to impose DEI, or to allow dudes in girls&#8217; toilets? Harry Sisson would flee to Canada to be a sex pest at the local Tim Horton\u2019s before he ever picked up a rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be a revolution in Europe? France was once famous for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TYpYs9GBXwY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its revolting people<\/a>. There\u2019s a lot of anger, but there aren\u2019t a lot of weapons left among the citizenry \u2013 never, ever, give up your guns and, in fact, go buy guns and ammunition. On the other hand, there aren\u2019t a lot of troops either for the governments to use to suppress their own people and force the people to accept the dictatorship should the Euro masses decide to leave their tiny, squalid apartments and take to the streets. The ugly truth is that civil wars don\u2019t necessarily require guns. Hundreds of thousands of people were butchered in Rwanda with knives and machetes. Maybe Keir Starmer was thinking ahead when he banned ninja swords.<\/p>\n<p>Civil wars are the least civil kind of wars. They are best avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they will just accept a picture of the future that is a wizened EU crone\u2019s Gucci slipper stamping on a human face forever.\u00a0Maybe manipulating the judicial system to ensure that the supporters of popular leaders are disenfranchised won\u2019t cause any more reaction among the people than some grumbling in their bizarre foreign languages.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you\u2019re familiar with history, and most of our elite no longer is, you might remember Julius Caesar and his crossing of the Rubicon. The Rubicon was the border to Italy that a Roman proconsul serving abroad could not cross at the head of his armed troops. Caesar knew that if he laid down his imperium and returned to Rome as a civilian, his political enemies would use the judiciary to destroy him. So, he didn\u2019t lay down his imperium when he returned to Rome. He brought his legionnaires.<\/p>\n<p>Now, one might point out that Caesar\u2019s political enemies did eventually murder him after he essentially became a dictator in fact, if not title. That\u2019s true. Caesar was famously merciful to his enemies. Several of the men who slaughtered him had received his pardon. The guy who came after him didn\u2019t make that mistake. Caesar\u2019s heir hunted down those murderers and killed them, along with a lot of other people. Augustus then made himself emperor, again in fact if not title.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the elite probably would have been better off not messing with Caesar and addressing the concerns of the plebs who adored him. Perhaps history is teaching us that today\u2019s popular leaders like Donald Trump and Marine La Pen are not the people\u2019s last chance. They are the globalist\u2019s last chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globalist Authoritarians Are Playing With Fire What happened with Marine Le Pen, the most popular politician in France who was just banned from standing for election on the flimsiest of pretenses, is no exception. 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