The chattering classes can’t help but celebrate the provocateur who clothes his extremist diatribes in pompous prose.
“Make this man prime minister,” they chant, lauding his analysis about the death of Europe and the West.
None dares challenge him or them on facts, pointing out the flaws in their arguments and calculations.
These are civilisational battles. Culture wars always are.
Who will contemplate that the numbers now living in abject poverty in their countries massively dwarf the number of foreigners they decry?
These are popular battles. All the ills of society can be projected onto the immigrant scourge, for now associated with a single creed.
We are not in the business of holding ourselves to account. To ask questions about extreme inequalities. To strive in ourselves for a more just society for all.
No, instead we must invest all our hopes in one whose legitimacy hangs of his mastery of the spoken word. He speaks well, therefore he must speak the truth.
Last modified: 5 February 2024
