🧵After two world wars, liberal elites believed that “inherited culture” led to closed societies and conflicts between nations.

Their solution?

Creating open societies under “liberal democracy” by doing away with the old virtues that came with God, King, and Country. 1/8 Philosopher Karl Popper and monumental two-volume work, "The Open Society and Its Enemies," contended that humanity's proclivity for dwelling within tribal or "closed" societies contributed to both World Wars. 2/8

🧵As Trump ramps up deportations, Selena Gomez, of all people, exposed an uncomfortable truth.

Many American citizens and those born to immigrant parents don’t view themselves as American at all.

After 60 years of mass immigration, America looks like a nation in name only. 1/9 In a recent video posted to social media, Selena Gomez cried over Trump’s deportations, saying she was “sorry” and that “all my people are getting attacked."

Yet she was born in Texas.

She's an American.

But that's not who she considers "her people." 2/9

The ability to protect the liberal project of multiculturalism hinges, in part, on controlling language and what is deemed “racist” or “hateful.”

Sci-fi luminary Philip K. Dick stated

“If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.” 1/ 🧵

https://twitter.com/sargon_of_akkad/status/1878044925654130744

Enemies of the “far-right” understand this concept well and have positioned themselves as the masters of words, weaponizing and restricting language to protect their project of unrestricted mass immigration and multiculturalism. 2/

Let's be clear about Tommy Robinson.

@TRobinsonNewEra is in prison not because of "contempt of court" but because he spoke up about rape gangs and the injustices being perpetuated against his people.

This makes the U.K. a vital front in the battle for Western Civilization. 🧵1/ Police admitted that it was more important to ignore the sexual abuse of girls by migrant gangs because they didn't want to increase "racial tensions."

However, the British authorities were more than happy to imprison Tommy Robinson for speaking the truth about mass migration 2/

🧵 The Post-War consensus arose from the desire of liberal elites to avoid another catastrophic war after the death and destruction experienced between 1914 and 1945.

To save the West, they believed the foundations of the West needed to be dismantled.

🧵Let’s explore. 1/18 As told in R.R. Reno’s book, “Return of the Strong Gods,” numerous political and academic elites concluded that the “Strong Gods” of national identity, religious belief, hierarchy, moral absolutes, and patriotism that defined the West for centuries needed to be discarded. 2/18

Immigrants now represent 15.6% of the U.S. population — the highest in history.

These numbers are nation-ending.

A thread 🧵 (1/9) Today, the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) is estimated to be approximately 51.6 million, an increase of around 6.6 million since Biden and Harris took office. (2/9)

🧵 A “country for everybody” is an idea related to the philosophy behind Karl Popper’s “open society,” which emerged from the post-war consensus after 1945.

Let’s discuss. 1/9 After the catastrophes of both World Wars and the Holocaust, Popper argued that humanity's tendency to live in "closed" societies—marked by nationalism, hierarchy, authority, and collective values—needed to be cast aside. 2/9

Multiculturalism, as a liberal project, was designed to hollow out Western nations.

Post World War II, liberal elites were concerned about the potential return to authoritarianism and repeatedly challenged the role of "inherited culture."

God, King, and Country had to go. 1/🧵 Karl Popper's monumental two-volume work, "The Open Society and Its Enemies," contended that humanity's proclivity for dwelling within tribal or "closed" societies contributed to both World Wars. 2/

🧵The United States, once defined by its distinctive identity and heritage, has been summarily supplanted by the concept of America as an idea, transforming the nation into little more than an economic opportunity zone and service provider for global migration. 1/ As such, this detachment between the American nation and its people in favor of the new religion of “multiculturalism” has had disastrous consequences for the United States. 2/

Some may scoff at the notion that 11 million illegal immigrants could ever be granted amnesty and, eventually, U.S. citizenship.

But the reality is this has happened before, and surprisingly, it was implemented by conservative hero Ronald Reagan.

A thread 🧵 1/ In 1986, Reagan granted amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants in that year’s immigration reform bill.

In exchange, there was supposed to be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers. 2/

The Declaration of Independence and, later, the Constitution are not, and have never been, capable of protecting individual or collective rights.

A thread 🧵 1/7 The effectiveness of a written constitution relies heavily on the willingness of those in power to uphold its principles.

As a society transforms, as ours has, so does the understanding and enforcement of constitutional “rights.” 2/7

The left controls the algorithmic means of information production.

This has far more damaging consequences than their monopoly on search engine results.

A thread 🧵 1/7 Search engine algorithms have always been designed to favor more "popular" results and, in some cases, exclude “non-normative” fringe viewpoints.

Before generative AI, you could type in a search query and proceed at your own pace down the rabbit hole of search results. 2/7

What do Roman General Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus and American General George Washington have in common?

A lot. Let’s dive in.

A “President’s Day” thread🧵1/6

Cincinnatus was living in retirement on his four-acre farm outside of Rome, and representatives from the Senate found him working in his field.

They told him of a great threat facing Rome and begged him to return to serve as dictator in Rome’s time of need. 2/6

There is a massive amount of work created by incredibly talented people that needs to be curated and promoted.

This is why every Sunday, I highlight the best content I’ve come across over the past week.

⬇️ Let’s get this 🧵 started. In no particular order. (1/6) Civil rights and the all-encompassing, ever-expanding “human rights” became the “new civic religion of Western nations, and the pursuit of these rights could justify any expansion in government authority.”

🔥analysis from @AuronMacintyre (2/6)
theblaze.com/op-ed/macintyr…

There is a massive amount of work by incredibly talented people that needs to be curated and promoted.

This is why every Sunday, I summarize the best content I’ve come across over the past week.

⬇️ Let’s get this 🧵 started. In no particular order. (1/8) Man is political and religious by nature.

Our “secular” state has introduced new, destructive theologies, leading to complete political disorder.

But politics can be reoriented towards the “good.”

Fantastic essay by @ccpecknold in @PostlibOrder (2/8)
postliberalorder.substack.com/p/the-very-goo…

Make no mistake, the United States is in the process of being conquered.

Instead of ceding geographical territory to a foreign invading adversary, its citizens are being intellectually colonized from within - as if infected by a mind virus. (1/6) The left has celebrated America’s strict separation of church and state.

But nothing can be further from the truth. As traditional Christian religion has been relegated to the private sphere, something new and sinister has taken its place. (2/6)