Mick Hume’s Democracy Watch column tracks the battles between the EU elites and the peoples of Europe.
It is time for us to take back the idea of patriotism from the elites, and to free national consciousness from all the negative labels they have attached to it.
The case of Marine Le Pen is one of many where the courts are used as a political weapon against the rising populist revolt.
They are playing war games but don’t truly believe that Europe’s values are worth fighting for.
The trouble is, however, that too many Western leaders do not believe in the nations they rule over.
It was not Elon Musk but mass migration and Net Zero madness that prompted millions of Germans to vote AfD.
We are two Wests. The divide is not America versus Europe, it is the people versus the elites.
Europe’s sovereign nations need to get their own defences in order.
The new President had to take cover from the Washington weather, but it was the old Davos elites who looked out in the political cold.
Today, conservatives are the new heretics, the ones being persecuted for expressing ideas that go against the grain of the conformist You-Can’t-Say-That culture.
We are engaged in a political war for the soul of Europe, against those who would erase its past in order to control its future.
U.S. election result marks a new high point in the democratic revolt against Western elites
In a remarkable drum-beating display in Strasbourg last week, the legal mask slipped, the velvet gloves came off, and the EU elites declared war on Hungary.