Talk about opening the Overton Window:
US President Donald Trump is to argue that the future of Western civilisation is at stake in a keynote speech in the Polish capital Warsaw. Holding up Poland as an example of a country ready to defend civilisation, he will warn against the threats of “terrorism and extremism”.
Poland’s conservative government shares Mr Trump’s hostile view of immigration and strong sense of sovereignty.
Mr Trump is in Poland ahead of a G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. “Because as the Polish experience reminds us – the defence of the West ultimately rests not only on means but also on the will of its people to prevail,” Mr Trump will say, according to excerpts released from the speech.
He simultaneously calls for defending our in-group, which the left will be triggered by, while using the left’s code words for enemies, in the form of “radical extremism.” It is a beautiful dogwhistle that will drive the left crazy. They know he is talking to us and encouraging us, and there is nothing they can do about it.
He is fighting the war, while playing the political game. And simply by mentioning it, and placing the idea that Western Civilization is worth defending in people’s minds, he is shifting people’s perceptions of what is acceptable and by extension he is shifting their perceptions of what is the right course forward. If the President of the US can be a nationalist, maybe being a nationalist is not a bad thing. It is a huge difference from when the very term is treated as an epithet.
I cannot believe how long I underestimated Donald Trump. I had always seen him as a simple celebrity businessman – successful, but unremarkable. In reality, in matters of character, intellect, warrior spirit, morality and principle, it would appear that he will be shown to be one of the greatest Presidents in history, and possibly even the savior of Western civilization. Even funnier, I think I underestimated him because that is what he wanted everyone to do. The lessons in war which his story imparts just never stop coming.
Between Austria closing its border with the military, Eastern Europe awakening, Britain Brexiting, Vladimir Putin pulling strings, and Donald Trump leading America, the West is not in a bad position at all.
Especially when you consider that this is what is happening now, when resources are still quite flush. Let the economic collapse hit and the debt bombs in each nation go off, and imagine how everything will change.
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He also bifurcates liberals with this message. Western liberals are signaled to, “Join or die” basically to embrace Western Civ or face hardship. More recent arrivals, the “non-Western” liberals, have a tougher time because of their appearance-identity gap. This sets the liberals against one another and encourages Western liberals to sell out their non-Western liberal allies so that they may experience continued ease, and maybe even higher social standing. Now there is no way liberals can trust each other, especially in authority settings, such as corporate board rooms and security command centers.