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Is This How Europe Ends?

Pat Buchanan • March 10, 2020

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"Fortress Europe is an illusion." So declares the Financial Times in the closing line of its Saturday editorial: "Europe Cannot Ignore Syrian Migrant Crisis." The FT undertakes to instruct the Old Continent on what its duty is and what its future holds: "The EU will face flows of migrants and asylum seekers across the Mediterranean... Read More

Slovakia: Third Positionist Party Rises to Second As Gypsy Violence Engulfs Country

Eric Striker • January 23, 2020

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Nationalists are on the rise in Slovakia. The People's Party - Our Slovakia, led by charismatic rebel Marian Kotleba, is polling at 14% ahead of parliamentary elections next February. This will almost double the seats they won in 2016, putting them ahead of all the competing conservative and liberal parties and making them second only... Read More

Steve Bannon - A Profile of a U.S. Appartchik. from China to the Pope

Andre Vltchek • October 23, 2019

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Almost all of the prominent U.S. neocons have been madly snapping at everything and everybody who opposes the Western right-wing dogmas, be they Chinese or Russian leaders, local opposition figures, or, lately, even the Pope. Individuals like Steve Bannon, often greatly influence leaders like President Donald Trump. Then they fall out of grace, sometimes because... Read More

Sweden: the GOP's Ideological Take Over of Sweden Democrats

Eric Striker • October 8, 2019

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American neo-conservatives have successfully infiltrated and control the "populist" right-wing opposition party in Sweden, Sweden Democrats (SD). SD won 18% of the vote in the 2018 general election. Once considered a fringe "far-right" party, they have grown thanks largely to hopes that they will do something about Sweden's disastrous immigration situation. SD's ideology is one... Read More

Austrian Immigration Patriot Party Has Chance to Strike Back At Deep State Plotters—Can Americans?

Friedrich Zauner • September 23, 2019

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See earlier by Friedrich Zauner: Is It Too Late For Germany? This Sunday, September 29, for the second time in two years 6.4 million Austrians will vote a new parliament. The deep political crisis that triggered these new elections came after 17 months of the most popular government this tiny little country in the heart... Read More

Retiring EU Chief Jean-Claude Juncker Still Has No Idea What He Did Wrong

“I am sad that I was not able to make Europeans love Europe”

Guillaume Durocher • September 22, 2019

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The retiring president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has been unusually outspoken during his last weeks in office. He recently had a long interview with the Belgian newspaper L’Écho in which he discussed his actions and frustrations as head of the European Union. Juncker has since 2014 presided over the Greek crisis, the migrant... Read More

Austrian Government Collapse Shows Trap for National Conservatives

Attack From Far Left, Betrayed by Center/ Respectable Right

James Kirkpatrick • May 30, 2019

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The current chaos in Austria shows that partnership between “center-right” and national conservative parties in Europe has limits. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government, a coalition between Kurz’s Austrian People’s Party and the National Conservative Freedom Party, collapsed after nationalists rebelled against Europe’s “youngest leader”. [Austrian chancellor Kurz outsted after nationalists turn on him, by Boris Groendahl,... Read More

Far-Left (GUE/NGL), Social-Democrats (S&D), Greens/EFA, Liberals (ALDE), conservatives (EPP), euro-skeptic conservatives (ECR), populists (EFDD), Nationalists (ENF).

EU Election Roundup

Europe Polarizes Between Nationalists and Globalists as Old Parties Fritter Away

Guillaume Durocher • May 28, 2019

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The day is here! After five years, a new European Parliament has been elected! What is the European Parliament? That doesn’t matter too much. On the human level, it is a retirement home for has-been politicians and a trial area for the new generation of (increasingly rootless frequent-flyer) whippersnappers. In terms of policy, it influences... Read More

Is the Liberal Hour Ending in the West?

Pat Buchanan • May 28, 2019

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Hillary Clinton called them "the deplorables." Barack Obama called them losers who "cling" to their Bibles, bigotries and guns. To President Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission, they are "these populist, nationalists, stupid nationalists... in love with their own countries." Well, "stupid" they may be, and, yes, they do love their countries, but last week... Read More

Why Farage Wins the Country and Corbyn Wins Only a Party

Gilad Atzmon • May 22, 2019

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Nigel Farage, Britain’s Donald Trump character, is by far the most significant man in British politics. In just a few weeks he has gathered huge political momentum. In tomorrow’s European Parliament elections he appears likely to score more votes than Labour and the Conservatives combined. Farage stood up against the entire political establishment, including the... Read More

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The European New Right: Symptom of the West’s Decline?

Kevin Barrett • May 21, 2019

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During the past few decades an intellectual movement has arisen out of the ruins of what once passed for Western civilization. As the great narrative of secular humanism, materialism, and progress collapsed—its obituary was published by Lyotard as The Postmodern Condition—an odd constellation of nationalist and traditionalist thinking began shaking the foundations of Western intellectual... Read More

Has the Day of the Nationalists Come?

Pat Buchanan • May 21, 2019

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A week from today, Europeans may be able to gauge how high the tide of populism and nationalism has risen within their countries and on their continent. For all the returns will be in from three days of elections in the 28 nations represented in the European Parliament. Expectation: Nationalists and populists will turn in... Read More

Van Langenhove (far-right) with fellow activists: “Secure Borders, Secure Future.”

Persecuted for Memes

Dries Van Langenhove and the New Face of Flemish Nationalism

Guillaume Durocher • April 7, 2019

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Dries Van Langenhove is a Flemish nationalist who has rocketed to the national scene in just a few years by founding the nationalist group Shield & Friends, which rapidly achieved nation-wide fame for its spectacular direct actions and savvy use of social media. Van Langenhove is now heading Flemish Interest’s (Vlaams Belang, VB) electoral list... Read More

Forum for Democracy’s Success In Dutch Election Shows Path Forward for Patriots

James Kirkpatrick • March 22, 2019

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Two years ago, the Forum for Democracy was a new fringe party in the Netherlands. Today, it is poised to become the largest party in the Dutch Senate after a decisive victory in recent elections. [Dutch government loses Senate majority amid populist surge, by Toby Sterling and Bart Meijer, Reuters, March 20, 2019] And the... Read More

Jean-Yves Le Gallou, Academia Christiana. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

From National Front to European Civilization

An Interview with Jean-Yves Le Gallou

Guillaume Durocher • March 21, 2019

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The following is an interview with Jean-Yves Le Gallou, a former French high civil servant, author, and identitarian activist. He was involved with the Nouvelle Droite intellectual movement as early as the 1970s before going on to join the Front National (FN). As a politician, he served as the secretary-general for the FN’s parliamentary group... Read More

A grave Salvini at a press conference after a drunk-driving Moroccan killed two Italians

How to Win on Immigration: Italy’s Salvini Shows the Way

Guillaume Durocher • March 14, 2019

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Really and truly, I did not expect the most promising developments in West-European politics to come from Italy. Who could predict that the strange government appointed in June 2018 – an uneasy alliance of nationalists under Matteo Salvini’s Lega and the populist-but-vague Five-Star Movement – would last as long or achieve as much as it... Read More

A young Berlusconi singing on a cruise ship. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Loro & My Way

Berlusconi, or the Limits of Democratic Chadism

Guillaume Durocher • November 20, 2018

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The printed word is really not enough to get a sense of a person. For that, you really need to meet them, talk to them, do things with them for a while. If you can’t actually meet a person, perhaps the next best thing is to see some films about them, a complete audiovisual experience.... Read More

Shattering Europe?

Why Trump’s Paris Fiasco Really Matters

Rajan Menon • November 18, 2018

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You’ve probably had your fill of the media coverage, punditry, tweets, and wisecracks surrounding President Trump’s controversial trip to Paris, officially undertaken to honor the Allied soldiers, especially the Americans, who perished in France during World War I. By now, we’re used to the president’s words and deeds prompting eye-rolling and jokes. But on this... Read More

Macron to Trump: 'You're No Patriot!'

Pat Buchanan • November 13, 2018

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In a rebuke bordering on national insult Sunday, Emmanuel Macron retorted to Donald Trump's calling himself a nationalist. "Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism; nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism." As for Trump's policy of "America first," Macron trashed such atavistic thinking in this new age: "By saying we put ourselves first and the... Read More

Polar Alliance Update: Ice People ARE Mobilizing Against Sun People Tsunami…Even Chinese-Canadians(!)

John Derbyshire • August 7, 2018

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I recently predicted the emergence of Polar Alliance as Ice People recognize their common interest in stopping the Sun People Tsunami. Further evidence of that common interest: Italy Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte just visited the U.S.A. and had a meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office. The two leaders got along famously, both... Read More

Take Populism Global! Italian Government Shows the Way for Trump

James Kirkpatrick • June 11, 2018

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The Great and the Good are furious about Donald Trump’s conduct at the G7 Summit, as journalists can’t believe an American president had the temerity to stand up for his nation’s interests at an international conference [One ‘rant,’ rough talks sour G7 mood in confrontations with Trump, Reuters, June 9, 2018]. They are especially incensed... Read More

Italy: the Center Cannot Hold

Diana Johnstone • June 1, 2018

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For a generation, acceptance of the neoliberal doctrine “there is no alternative” has paralyzed politics in the West. If there is no alternative, what is politics to be about? The Authoritarian Center The traditional governing parties, center “left” and center “right” all follow the same neoliberal policies and constitute the self-designated “center”. Mainstream media enforce... Read More

Why the Authoritarian Right Is Rising

Pat Buchanan • April 20, 2018

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A fortnight ago, Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party won enough seats in the Hungarian parliament to rewrite his country's constitution. To progressives across the West, this was disturbing news. For the bete noire of Orban's campaign was uber-globalist George Soros. And Orban's commitments were to halt any further surrenders of Hungarian sovereignty and independence... Read More

The Italian Job: ‘Unlikely’ Alliance Could Become Reality

As Italy's traditional parties scramble to rise from the debris, two extremes – populist Five Star and far-right Lega...

Pepe Escobar • March 6, 2018

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A triumph of “populism.” A hung parliament. “Ungovernable” Italy. Berlusconi’s demise. The latest chapter in a European saga. The “end of socialist parties.” Italy’s latest elections were a roller coaster featuring plenty of thrills. Yet the top political nugget is unmistakable: Only one coalition may aspire to an absolute majority, an – unlikely – alliance... Read More

Finland at 100—Frozen by Fear, Dragged to a Multicultural Grave

Harri Honkanen • December 28, 2017

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In the early hours of 28th September 1994, a pleasure ship, MS Estonia, sank in the Baltic Sea. Of the 989 people on board, a staggering 852 died. Bizarrely, some 650 were found below decks—unable to believe what was happening, they had made no attempt to save their lives Why? One possibility: humans used to... Read More

Austrian Kurz on way to becoming new Chancellor

Europe’s Youngest Head of Government Inaugurated in Vienna

On immigration, not all millennial hearts beat to the left

Gene Tuttle • December 20, 2017

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“Watergate” Carl Bernstein pleasantly surprised me last May by agreeing that widespread use of the “anti-immigrant” mantra often reflected careless journalism. Since our brief exchange at Vienna’s Concordia Press Club coffee bar, news organizations have been applying the term promiscuously to characterize Austria’s newly elected coalition government, sworn in on December 18th. Bernstein, whose talk... Read More

What’s the Matter with Eastern Europe?

Welcome to the Birthplace of Trumpism

John Feffer • December 5, 2017

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He was a rich businessman, an outspoken outsider with a love of conspiracy theories. And he was a populist running for president. In 1990, when Donald Trump was still beyond the furthest outskirts of American politics, Stanislaw Tyminski was trying to become the new president of post-communist Poland. He shared something else with the future... Read More

The National Question and the War on Poland

James Kirkpatrick • November 16, 2017

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“I hid in my bathroom from anti-Semitic marchers in Poland – in 2017” screamed Sam Rubin in The Forward, (November 13, 2017) triggered by the sight of tens of thousands of Polish patriots honoring their country’s independence in a march last Saturday November 13. Needless to say, despite the clickbait headline and ritualistic invocation of... Read More

Austrians Vote Against Muslim Anschluss, Get Called Nazis

John Derbyshire • October 21, 2017

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Globalists vs. Nationalists in Europe—and in the U.S.

John Derbyshire • September 11, 2017

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Macron’s Unusual Marriage Is OK—But NOT What His Type Are Doing to France (And America)

John Derbyshire • April 29, 2017

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In my study, there hang portraits of my two literary heroes. One of them, Samuel Johnson, at age 25 married

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx aka “multikulti Marx”

Non-White Migrants and the Catholic Church

The Politics of Penitence

Tom Sunic • April 29, 2017

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The word ‘Islam’ seems to have become by now, especially on the rightwing social spectrum, an all-encompassing code word for non-White residents and migrants. Predictably, the so-called asymmetric or hybrid wars waged by the US and EU against the ISIS are creating a widespread, albeit still muted hatred against Arabs and Muslims among the majority... Read More

Only Marine Le Pen Represents France

Paul Craig Roberts • April 26, 2017

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Marine Le Pen is the only candidate for the French presidency who represents France. All the rest represent Washington and the EU. Why are the French people so slow to see the obvious facts? France died with Charles de Gaulle. He was the last French president. Washington, of course, hated De Gaulle, because he would... Read More

Is Macron the EU's Last Best Hope?

Pat Buchanan • April 25, 2017

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For the French establishment, Sunday's presidential election came close to a near-death experience. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a "damn near-run thing." Neither candidate of the two major parties that have ruled France since Charles De Gaulle even made it into the runoff, an astonishing repudiation of France's national elite.... Read More

France: Will 'La Morosite' Win the Vote?

Eric Margolis • April 22, 2017

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I watched the final French presidential debate last Thursday night with fascination and even a measure of admiration. France has some very intelligent, well-educated politicians. They are fine until they get into office but then must begin pleasing France’s fractious voters. And they must deal with the rising tide of jihadist violence in France, as... Read More

Is Turkey Lost to the West?

Pat Buchanan • March 14, 2017

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Not long ago, a democratizing Turkey, with the second-largest army in NATO, appeared on track to join the European Union. That's not likely now, or perhaps ever. Last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared Angela Merkel's Germany to Hitler's, said the Netherlands was full of "Nazi remnants" and "fascists," and suggested the Dutch ambassador go... Read More

Marine Le Pen and the Existential Stakes In France’s Election

James Kirkpatrick • March 2, 2017

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Above, Marine Le Pen savages Angela Merkel in the EU Parliament. [See Also: Make Europe Great Again: Nationalism On The Rise—But Fast Enough?]

Marine Le Pen and niece Marion Marechal Le Pen--France is either voting for them, or another immigration skeptic.

Make Europe Great Again: Nationalism On the Rise—But Fast Enough?

James Kirkpatrick • February 23, 2017

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It is the best of times, it is the worst of times for nationalism in Europe. Patriot parties are leading the polls in major European countries, though this mass support doesn’t prevent them from invariably being described as “Far Right” by the Main Stream Media. But it’s unclear if any of these parties have a... Read More

Nigel Farage listens to a British caller who is well to his right on Muslim immigration. Credit: VDare.com.

Forget Politicians—the People of the West Have Decided Against Muslim Immigration

John Derbyshire • February 21, 2017

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Talk about fake news: before our very eyes, the Main Stream Media is attempting to disappear Sweden’s Muslim rape crisis after President Trump alluded to it in his Florida rally on Friday e.g. From an Anchor’s Lips to Trump’s Ears to Sweden’s Disbelief . [By Peter Baker And Sewell Chan, NYT, February 20, 2017] Trump... Read More

Democrats Abroad at Johann Strauss memorial not in tune with Trump

U.S. Domestic Politics Don’t Stop At Water's Edge

Gene Tuttle • January 27, 2017

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A demonstrator singing Bob Dylan’s “times they are a changing” was warming up the crowd when I arrived at Vienna’s Stadtpark with an invitation from Democrats Abroad to protest against the new US president. One of the few reminders that I was not back on campus in the late 60s was the Johann Strauss statue... Read More

Europe's Future -- Merkel or Le Pen?

Pat Buchanan • December 23, 2016

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The terrorist who hijacked a truck in Berlin and ran over and killed 12 people, maiming and wounding 48 more, in that massacre in the Christmas market, has done more damage than he could imagine. If the perpetrator is the jihadist from Tunisia who had no right to be in Germany, and had been under... Read More

The Sun People Tsunami and the Inevitability of Lifeboat Ethics

John Derbyshire • December 17, 2016

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Our Ruling Class’s anxieties about the Russians, and their anxieties about us, have a deckchairs-on-the-Titanic quality about them. Peering forward into the middle 21st century as best I am able, there are much bigger issues looming. Nine years ago I wrote a piece titled “The Arctic Alliance.” My argument, in a nutshell, was that the... Read More

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Is There A Nationalist Ceiling In Europe?

John Derbyshire • December 11, 2016

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U.S. Elections Shockwaves Hit Europe

Eric Margolis • November 13, 2016

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Donald Trump’s startling and explosive victory has not only shaken America’s oligarchy to its core, it’s also sending shock waves across Europe and scaring the top hats off plutocrats and their tame politicians. The great Mark Twain wrote early in the 20th century: ‘if you don’t read newspapers you are uninformed. But if you do... Read More

The Sound of Europe: So Long, Farewell, Political Center

John Derbyshire • May 30, 2016

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A striking feature of last weekend’s AmRen conference—other than itsyouthfulness, I mean—was its international flavor. There were ten speakers. Subtracting out Jared Taylor’s address and Sam Dickson’s traditional benediction, the other eight broke out by nationality as: a Mexican, a South African, an Estonian, two Belgians, and three Americans. (I’m counting VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow... Read More

Austrian Elections: Nazis Still Make Great Copy

Much of Europe is moving to the right these days.

Gene Tuttle • May 21, 2016

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Media folk tend to love Nazi stories. The affinity first struck me when I tried peddling a novel draft in the 1970s about an escape from East Germany. An American editor reading through my synopsis at the Frankfurt Book Fair yanked the cigar from his mouth to ask: Nazis are still selling! Austria is expected... Read More

Visegrad Four vs. Merkel—Europe In the Balance

John Derbyshire • February 20, 2016

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Across the pond in Europe, the National Question is getting really prominent. Anti-national universalism in the last century threw up two great supranational projects: the Soviet Union and the European Union. The Soviet Union collapsed 25 years ago. I don’t think it’s too much to hope that the EU is now collapsing as we watch.... Read More

Hungarian Lessons

Linh Dinh • February 8, 2016

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I was surprised by how grimy and sooty Budapest was. So many of its buildings, once gorgeous, were in an advanced state of decay. This city looked better before World War II, for sure, and certainly a century ago. Since escaping Communism, Budapest is regaining its glories, though not at the same pace as Prague.... Read More

Helsinki’s Angels

Way To Mess Up A Quiet, Homogeneous Little Scandinavian Country, Guys

John Derbyshire • February 6, 2016

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I was just reading this MailOnline article about Finland, headlined (and it’s a long headline): Nazi daggers, SS hats and a hangman’s noose: On night patrol with the “Soldiers of Odin,” neo-Nazi led vigilantes vowing to “keep Europe’s women safe from migrant sex attacks”. [By Jake Wallis Simons, February 4, 2016] That’s the headline. They... Read More

Mark Steyn’s “America Alone,” Ten Years On

John Derbyshire • January 20, 2016

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In his column yesterday Mark Steyn looked back ten years to the origins of his 2006 Book America Alone. The thesis of the book was that Europe is doomed due to collapsing fertility among the indigenes and mass Muslim immigration, so that the U.S.A. will be left standing alone at last as the sole refuge... Read More

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