The threat to the world from the American left

America saved Europe from the Kaiser and Hitler, stood ready to deter an invasion by Stalin that would not have happened, but since Wilson joined the Allied side in the First World War and enunciated his baleful Fourteen Points,  American liberalism has itself been a great threat to civilisation. After say 1964 it has been perhaps the greatest threat. Now, controlling Hollywood and the universities, it is a question whether Western civilisation as we know it can survive.


By liberalism I include the foreign policy of George W. Bush, who was essentially a Wilsonian liberal abroad.

There's another absolute corker of an article by Ed West in Unherd (it's free - I strongly recommend you subscribe). I think he is absolutely as good as Douglas Murray and Christopher Caldwell. More than that I cannot say.

I quote from it.

Indeed, while the “Anglosphere” is a term with strong centre-Right Atlanticist undertones, by any real measurement the English-speaking nations are the most liberal on earth.

In continental Europe, only the small Scandinavian countries are comparable and Germany — and even more so France — are further to the Right on core progressive issues like race relations, gender equality and gay rights. (They may be more socially democratic, but that is another matter). Compare Macron’s firm opposition to the BLM iconoclasm with the British Government’s response.


If Joe Biden wins in November, the continual liberal direction of the US will accelerate, bringing the Anglosphere with it, since we have almost no immunity to American cultural trends. It is true that almost all western countries are becoming more liberal — even in Poland, where conservatives just sneaked the recent election, time may be against them — but the English-speaking world is moving at a more rapid rate. In the US, the youngest generation are way, way to the Left of their elders, while their peers in France are among the biggest supporters of the radical Right.