Updated. Gavin Mortimer, of The Spectator UK, writes,
“The riots that have ravaged France in recent days have given Eric Zemmour a second wind. The leader of the right wing Reconquest party has been on the airwaves and in the newspapers, saying, with a touch of schadenfreude, ‘I told you so’.
In a television interview on Saturday evening, Zemmour explained that the reason he entered politics in late 2021 was because of what he described as the Republic’s twenty-year policy of ‘crazy mass immigration’. It was the issue on which he campaigned during last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Unlike Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party, Zemmour barely mentioned the cost of living crisis; immigration and Islam were his main agenda.
It may not be long before Zemmour’s zero migration policy is adopted by other right-wing parties in Europe
His twin obsessions didn’t pay off. He received 2.4 million votes in the first round of the presidential campaign – a long way off his expectations. Not one of Reconquest’s 500 candidates was elected to parliament in the legislative elections.
Zemmour and his lieutenants spent last summer in reflection. Should they broaden their horizons or maintain their focus on immigration and Islam?
The surge in migrants crossing the Mediterranean into Europe last summer, and a series of violent attacks committed in France by foreigners, made up their mind: stick to the existing strategy. ‘We are waging a civilisational war to preserve our age-old identity, which is threatened today by the combined effect of uncontrolled immigration and an Islam that seeks to conquer,’ declared Nicolas Bay, vice-president of Reconquest, in September.
Note: This I fear is our future. But with a profound twist. Macron and the Biden administration are getting crazier and crazier because for decades they’ve encouraged the people to have fewer and fewer children to pay for their future. So they tell the old people to work more and summon a vast wage-slave underclass from Latin America and elsewhere —but these will turn on the myopic crazies too if they don’t get real. Decadence is not “free” after all.
— St Thomas Aquinas on Immigration
— Immigration, Birds of a Feather and Trojan Horses
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