In October 1806, in the small German university town of Jena, the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel witnessed Napoleon Bonaparte on horseback passing in the street. Napoleon’s French armies had just destroyed the Prussian military, and he was on his way to Berlin as conqueror.
Hegel said he saw history on horseback. He called Napoleon “the soul of the world,” by which he meant Napoleon was the unconscious embodiment and the manifestation of the “Spirit” of historical progress — the man Fate had chosen to usher in a new age. For Hegel, Napoleon destroyed the old age of the aristocracy and ushered in the new one of nation states.
The political environment in the West today is similarly febrile. We do not see a man on a white horse, but we do see nascent movements in the United Kingdom and Europe that reflect the one in the United States that elected President Donald Trump. They reject the immigration policies of their governments. In America, Britian, and Europe, the transition is happening from the old globalist age to the new nationalist age.
The old age was defined by deliberate and sustained mass migration into the West. For years, the British and European Union governments have allowed tens of millions of mostly young men into their countries. In America, the Biden administration encouraged and accelerated the immigration of many tens of millions of people in four years. Years of immigration have transformed America, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Europe. Their cities and identities have come under deliberate assault. Mass immigration brought violent crime, including murder and rape, weakened the fabric of these high-trust societies, and stole the birthright of their citizens. Fundamentally, it advanced the dissolution of these countries and of Western civilization.
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