Trump single-handedly built a Republican majority, then destroyed it. By Greg Sheridan in The Australian.

Some Americans liked the weird, vulgar, crass Trump style. Tens of millions of Americans didn’t much like the Trump style but were willing to put up with that in exchange for a presidency that solved the problems.

And Trump has had some significant policy successes in his second term. He closed the US southern border and brought ­illegal immigration under control. That made a significant contribution to another big success, bringing down the crime rate.

Whatever you think of the US military campaign in Iran, it was contrary to every indication Trump had given about no more foreign wars and he made no ­effort at all to prepare the American people for any sacrifice that might be necessary, falsely promising them a short war of four or six weeks.

As a result of the Iran campaign, petrol prices, and especially diesel prices, soared. More than anything, the rise in inflation hurt the Republicans. Inflation tends to count for more in elections than do transgender issues. …

On immigration control, the public supported Trump, but, as with almost everything else, Trump overdid a defensible position and turned it into indefensible excess. Nobody voted to have often innocent people die in mismanaged arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. This contributed to a loss of credibility with Hispanic and independent voters. Hispanics, typically employed on lower than average wages, were also alienated by inflation.

But Trump also became more erratic and, though this hardly seemed possible, even more undisciplined in his speech and behaviour.

The way Trump and his family have enriched themselves out of the presidency has been shameless and off-putting to a lot of working-class folks who initially voted for Trump. Polls disclose that corruption was a big issue for American voters.

Trump thumped. By John Hinderaker at Powerline.

The night is shaping up as a disaster for the GOP, and a comprehensive repudiation of Donald Trump.

I was wrong: I thought it would be a normal midterm election, but it is shaping up as a wipeout that will approach or even equal the Obama disaster of 2010.

Republicans lost every swing race, and some that were not expected to be in that category. Polling generally overestimated Republican strength.

Texas was the worst disaster. James Talarico won in what looks like a landslide, Governor Greg Abbott lost to someone no one had heard of three months ago, and the Texas legislature has, I understand, flipped blue. No one predicted that.

Apart from his general unpopularity, Trump contributed to the debacle with bad judgment.

• John Cornyn would have been re-elected easily in Texas, but Trump couldn’t resist endorsing the wildly unpopular Ken Paxton for the Senate seat.
• In South Carolina, he drew Lindsey Graham’s sister into the race. She had no qualifications, and when asked a question by a reporter — I think it was on foreign policy — she said she didn’t know much about it.
• Trump went so far as to endorse the pillow guy, Mike Lindell, for Governor of Minnesota, but fortunately Minnesota Republicans weren’t that dumb.

Trump’s wounds are, as usual, largely self-inflicted. …

Post-Trump Republicans?

Trump has been repudiated pretty much universally across the country. What comes next? The GOP will have to figure that out.

Looking ahead to 2028, one wonders whether anyone strongly associated with the Trump administration will have a serious chance at the Republican presidential nomination. I would think that JD Vance is now out of the picture. And, sadly, maybe Marco Rubio, too. Maybe the time will be right for Ron DeSantis. …

Great President, poor politician:

Donald Trump has been, for the most part, a good president. But he is a terrible politician, and that has finally caught up with him. And, unfortunately, with us.

Tomorrow we will enter into a very different political world.

He’s only one man. He needed more support. And he’s pretty old.

Taking Stock of the Trump Administration’s Victories. By Inez Feltscher Stepman at National Review.

The domestic policy record of the first two years of his second term should be described, from a conservative perspective, as a major achievement worth celebrating. …

Immigration:

Trump has effectively sealed what was a highly trafficked, lawless border over which both people and drugs flowed with little impediment. …

The controversial H-1B program, for example, which has been criticized by the right for abuse related to undercutting American wages, has gone from approving 130,000 visas annually to about a quarter of its previous size, at 35,000. Asylum claims accepted by the administration have likewise dropped by half, from 60,000 to 30,000. Student visas issued have dropped to 40,000 from a previous high of 155,000.

Legal immigration from Muslim-majority nations, in particular, has taken a whopping 96 percent cut … compared with levels under the previous one. …

All of this taken together has resulted in a nearly 3 million-person decline in the foreign-born population of the United States in less than two years …

Economy:

The Trump economic record for the past two years has shown a lot of green shoots and signs of turnaround.

Overall economic growth has been steady throughout the first two quarters of the year, and Biden-era inflation numbers appear long behind us. …

Real Equality Under the Law, No Woke Exceptions:

Among the greatest victories of the second Trump presidency thus far is the administration’s revolutionary interpretation of the Civil Rights Act (CRA) …

Under the Trump administration, the CRA has been applied not only to protect the left’s favored ethnic groups, but also to protect the disfavored ones: whites, males, Asians, and anyone else deemed too “overrepresented” in American institutions.

The seemingly obvious assertion that the CRA protects white people from racial discrimination, too, has sent shockwaves out in every direction, into institutions that had grown complacent and public in their declared goals to discriminate against white men for admission, hiring, and promotion. …

No more will employers have to categorize their employees by race and sex and fear a government lawsuit if their offices fail to reach tacit racial quotas. …

Higher education:

The Trump administration has successfully sued universities under Title VI (allowing left-wing “protests” to prevent Jewish students’ access to the classroom), under Title IX (requiring female students to share teams and facilities with males as a condition of participating in sports), and under the 2023 Students for Fair Admission decision, for discriminating heavily against white and Asian applicants in the admissions process….

Quietly, some of the most useless and politically provoking ideological departments are going away …

Law and Order:

If the crime rates under President Biden in 2024 had continued through this present day, approximately 5,000 more Americans would have lost their lives to homicide. Along those trend lines, there would have been 8,500 more rapes, 1,000 more carjackings, and 100,000 more burglaries. …

Nationally, though, violent crime is down, and it’s down a lot, and the most likely explanation is that a huge number of people who were in the country to commit these crimes simply aren’t there anymore….

The First Serious Rollback of the Administrative State in a Century:

Federal workers, as a share of the total workforce, are at their lowest point since 1939. …

Powerful positions have been reclassified and made subject to normal, at-will employment rather than a web of boards and protections that made them virtually impossible to fire and therefore not accountable to anyone, least of all the voter. …

That shift alone — restoring control over the executive branch to the elected executive — makes this administration perhaps the most constitutionally restorative term, thus far, in a century. …

DOGE may have been a superficial failure in terms of cutting excess spending, but it was a manifest success in identifying a large number of the absurdly ideological grants functionally funding the institutional left and its army of NGOs. I’ve called this critical overhaul “the Great DEI Defunding,” and it’s putting a huge financial strain on the leftist network that previously felt entitled to enormous taxpayer funding streams. …

Enforcement Actions Against Leftist Fraud and Activism Networks

Nearly every week, the Department of Justice announces another prosecution of the kind of fraud rings that created headlines about “Quality Learing Centers” that didn’t have any children, Medicaid payments going to patients that don’t exist, and other schemes that turn out to be far more common than many of us imagined. …

At last, a real alternative to the uniparty:

This is not the uniparty politics of the ’90s and 2000s that left many Americans feeling that it didn’t much matter which party was in power, but two very distinct visions for the future of the United States.

Four Issues Explain the US Election. By Mene Ukueberuwa at The Free Press.

We developed surveys designed to uncover respondents’ “private” opinions — the beliefs they consider too sensitive to express openly. …

It all adds up to an electorate that is eager for a change but wary of both parties, though the details behind that mood are often surprising….

Affordablity:

58 percent of Americans publicly say they are having trouble affording daily necessities, but fewer than half say so privately. …

Affordability tops voters’ list of concerns, ahead of every other issue, as the cost of everyday life keeps straining household budgets, and few believe Trump has done much to improve their spending power. Voters appear to be penalizing the entire GOP for these economic conditions, and the best hope for many Republican candidates is the notion that Democrats are equally unpopular. …

Immigration:

49 percent of Hispanics privately support Trump’s immigration agenda, but only 29 percent do publicly. …

Among Asian respondents, 46 percent privately say Trump’s immigration policies have been good for the country, compared with 33 percent publicly. Among Hispanic respondents, the figures are even more divergent: 49 percent privately approve, compared with just 29 percent publicly.

The findings suggest that support for Trump’s immigration policies is more widespread in private than Americans are willing to acknowledge publicly. …

Wokeness:

Only 31 percent of Americans privately believe Democrats are too focused on cultural issues, yet 47 percent say so publicly. …

The significant gap suggests that Democrats may have partly overcome the reputation for being too “woke” that turned some voters off in 2024. …

War:

Both in public and in private, little more than a third of Americans believe it’s worthwhile to start a war to prevent an enemy from gaining nuclear weapons.

Republicans seem to have been lulled into inaction because they assumed the polls were just wrong. Not so, it seems. The Democrat victories are mostly large enough that cheating isn’t significant.

Major leftist podcaster stops just short of calling for Elon Musk’s execution as a traitor. By ZeroHedge.

Scott Galloway holds massive significance in podcasting, generating approximately $15–20 million annually from his media empire, which reaches millions globally.

What began as a familiar critique of Silicon Valley’s billionaire class quickly took a darker turn.

Galloway compared Musk to aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, whose sympathies toward Nazi Germany before America’s entry into World War II remain a controversial chapter in U.S. history.

Galloway then invoked Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the American couple executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

“We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall,” Galloway said, before insisting Musk should be held to the same standards as other traitors.

Galloway stopped short of explicitly calling for Musk’s execution, but bringing up two spies who were put to death while calling him a traitor was a striking comparison.

Billionaires and nine figure types have more money than they can possibly spend on themselves. Is it fair that they have more than others? Perhaps not, but that’s not what matters to me.

People who have accumulated large amounts of money are responsible for allocating capital. They are stewards of vast amounts of what is really collective wealth a society has generated.

The great part of this is that more effective stewards — like Elon Musk — accumulate the most capital. That means that society maximizes the benefits from capital. I’d rather Elon Musk in charge of $1 trillion than, say, a bunch of bureaucrats.

Alternative to capitalism: Imagine if the dumbest, most ideological, or most corrupt people were in charge of allocating the world’s capital. Oh, I see, that’s the way modern Western government is going, and third world government has always been.

Half of Nvidia’s employees are worth over $25 million. By Marko Nguyen at Meme Burn.

An internal survey of roughly 3,000 Nvidia employees in June 2025 found that 76% to 78% are millionaires, with approximately 50% reporting a net worth above $25 million.

 

The wealth comes almost entirely from company stock, not salaries. Nvidia runs an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) that lets employees buy shares at a 15% discount to the lowest price over a two-year lookback window.

Nvidia’s stock has returned roughly 22,687% over the past decade on a split-adjusted basis … The company’s market cap now sits around $4.8 trillion.

All that success in delivering what others voluntarily pay for … breeds so much envy and resentment among a certain type of political person, who wants “equity”, brother. So gimme dat!

The dumbing down of Australian politics. By Damien Costas in The Spectator.

Older, bolder, richer Australia:

Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, and John Hewson … could be arrogant, evasive, and unbearable. But they were serious people making serious arguments. They understood policy and defended positions under pressure. …

There was a minimum intellectual standard.

Rhodes scholar

The same was expected of political journalists. Government is complicated. Tax, trade, defence, and industrial relations can’t always be explained between mattress advertisements. It requires people who can read a brief, recognise what matters and translate it for the public. …

Journalists like [Laurie Oakes] could dissect budgets, expose contradictions, and leave ministers wishing they’d developed a sudden diplomatic commitment in Paraguay.

That entire ecosystem has deteriorated.

Australia today:

The intelligence, command of detail, and capacity for argument among our politicians appear to have halved. Too many speak in slogans because that’s all they possess. Ask a second question and the machinery begins to smoke. …

Midwit

Independence is dangerous. Intellectual confidence is troublesome. Far safer to promote the factionally obedient, the ideologically house-trained, and those who control the numbers in a suburban branch.

The result is a Parliament populated by people who have spent their adult lives preparing to enter it without developing a reason why they should.

The education system can’t escape responsibility. … Students learn the vocabulary of certainty before acquiring the knowledge to justify it. They emerge with opinions on everything, expertise in very little and a touching faith that the former compensates for the latter.

Then came the collapse of journalism. …

The old political journalist wanted to catch ministers lying. The new model wants to catch the audience thinking incorrectly.

That failure gave independent media an opening. The internet broke the monopoly of complacent, ideological and distrusted institutions. …

Across the political spectrum, commentary comes in angry, expletive-ridden monologues from people with about as much class as a baboon in a ball gown. Every thumbnail announces that somebody has been destroyed, exposed, or humiliated, usually by a man alone in a spare bedroom. …

Yes, some are courageous. Many are passionate. Several have identified genuine failures that established journalism ignored. That is precisely why independent media matters. I don’t want fewer dissenting voices. I want better ones.

They should research carefully, speak precisely, and understand that profanity isn’t punctuation. Anger can alert people to a problem, but it can’t substitute for knowing what caused it or what should be done. A country can’t meme its way to competent government.

Sadly, Australia’s small market makes it difficult. Only a fraction of our population follows politics seriously, so few capable people can earn a living from independent commentary. Doing it properly is full-time work, requiring research, preparation, judgement, and expertise. In America or Britain, a specialist can find an audience that makes the work pay. Here, the intelligent lawyer continues practising law, the economist remains in finance, and the microphone is left to whoever wants it most.

On top of that, that average IQ continues to drop at one or two points per decade, having peaked in the late 1800s (the genetic component that is, so no, the Flynn effect does not mitigate this steady erosion). No wonder our politics increasingly resembles that of 1600s or 1700s England. Perhaps modernity and the standards of the last century are simply unsustainable already.

Another billion dollar industry arrives to feed off “The Climate Crisis” and make us poorer. By Joanne Nova.

Australian companies will pay $1+ billion in climate accounting fees, including reporting CO2 produced in other countries.

One thousand million dollars a year, soon to be more, is being sucked out of the Australian economy to pointlessly track carbon emissions. And companies will pay even more than that to hire consultants to calculate the emissions in the first place so the accountants (the ones earning a billion dollars) can check them.

It creates a new vested interest who will lobby for more of this red tape.

ASIC chair Joe Longo said it would be ‘the biggest change to company reporting in a generation’ .

All over the country fully functional people with 15 years of education (at least) are busy researching and calculating numbers that serve no useful purpose. Even if we pretend carbon dioxide was worth limiting (bear with me), what point is there is tracking emissions produced in China, say, from burning our coal? So we can flagellate ourselves at UN cocktail parties? So we can tell off President Xi?

Australian companies are being required to account for emissions they don’t produce, from facilities they don’t own, in countries where Australian law has no jurisdiction. Penalties are in the order of $18 million or 10% of annual turnover. What are we thinking?

This a billion dollars that isn’t making better widgets, growing food, or curing cancer. Customers will have to pay more for the exact same product. Shareholders get nothing but a smaller dividend. Australia becomes just a bit less competitive. But some bureaucrat will have some great stats to share on a slideshow at the next UN convention.

The Labor Party has brought in laws saying all Australian companies with more than 100 employees have to calculate their carbon emissions in detail, including not just the emissions they control (Scope 1) but the emissions produced by their suppliers of electricity, heating and cooling (Scope 2) and even by their customers (Scope 3).

ClimateZero has helpfully laid out the full bureaucratic nightmare that poor CEO’s must employ lawyers and accountants to wade through. This onerous task is being phased in, starting with largest companies last year, and bringing in the smaller $50 million operations* mid next year. “Scope 3” emissions get added to the burden a year after the Scope 1 and 2 emissions.

The awful truth is that big companies are doing all this work, and then paying around $85,000 just for accounting firms to check and approve their numbers. Mid sized companies are slugged for about $61,000 for the same process. This is really going to hurt smaller businesses. …

Two years ago two Coalition Senators estimated that climate reporting will cost business $2.3 billion. They estimated 1,800 entities would be captured. It’s just a paper pushing farce, tracking a gas that feeds plants and trees. The Labor Party is creating jobs burying bottles of cash and paying people to dig them up again.

Like net zero itself, this destroys productivity, so we all get poorer. Australian productivity figures have slumped, and there is a widespread feeling of life becoming tougher economically — which, surprise surprise, coincides with our push for net zero. If our ruling class had just done some due diligence on the carbon dioxide theory of global warming instead of jumping on Al Gore’s bandwagon they would have found it was exaggerated nonsense. But they didn’t. So stupid.

Created a divided society by putting multiculturalism ahead of assimilation.

Commentary Australian Greens:

This isn’t Iraq. It’s a school in Australia.

This is a parallel society forming in real time. It’s not racist to have a problem with this.

Either we all start voting like we want Australia to stay Australia, or our kids inherit the consequences.

And:

We used to have a shared sense of purpose, strong national identity, collective responsibility, social trust, pride in contributing to our nation, intergenerational thinking, a sense of belonging to something greater than oneself.

What happened? Where did we lose this? 🙁

And:

Mehreen Faruqi’s entire political brand is a single, well-worn tactic: pick a fight, inject race into it, demonise anyone … who disagrees, then collapse into the role of aggrieved victim the moment the pushback arrives.

The script never changes. It’s not sophisticated or brave. It’s actually the cheapest form of political performance available and she has made a very lucrative career out of it.

People aren’t sick of her because of her race. We’re sick of the relentless, bad-faith race-baiting, the reflexive accusation of bigotry against anyone who won’t applaud, the constant insistence that disagreement is violence and criticism is hate. That is a choice she keeps making and it comes at a huge social cost to our country.

Dearborn, Michigan:

This is the early voting line in Dearborn, MI. Like it or not, demographics are destiny.

This is the early voting line in Dearborn, MI. Like it or not, demographics are destiny. pic.twitter.com/AJA2i7ntpp

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 2, 2026

Victoria:

Last year Labor passed a treaty in Victoria and created this “First Peoples Assembly” which is basically a symbolic parliament but with power to formally challenge legislation. No one in Victoria voted for it but Labor passed it anyway.

The clown you’re watching makes over $250k a year for this.

Last year Labor passed a treaty in Victoria and created this “First Peoples Assembly” which is basically a symbolic parliament but with power to formally challenge legislation. No one in Victoria voted for it but Labor passed it anyway.

The clown you’re watching makes over $250k… pic.twitter.com/NvAHDdc3c0

— Commentary Australian Greens (@GreensAU2) October 31, 2026

Get more of what you subsidize, less of what you tax. Obviously, the uniparty did this to us intentionally. It’s as if our enemies/rivals (the old Soviet Union? China? Tehran? Mecca?) somehow influenced our societies to do this to themselves. Hmm, how much money would that take? Point enough virtue signalers in the desired direction, and let competition and mob dynamics do the rest.

Sovereignty or Submission? Poland’s Battle Against the Eurocrats is Everyone’s Battle. By Roger Kimball at American Greatness.

[Following] the attempted coup d’état in Poland Friday night, … who governs? The people or the unelected bureaucrats? It is one of the central political questions of our times, as applicable to Europe, Australia, Canada, and South America as it is to the United States.

Increasingly, it seems, the answer is “the bureaucrats.” Just a week ago, Brazil went through an extremely dodgy election in which a last-minute, illegal extension of voting yielded the Communist Lula da Silva a victory over Flávio Bolsonaro. The EU was pleased by, and perhaps contributed to, the outcome. Or consider what happened in Hungary. In May, Péter Magyar defeated Viktor Orbán. Magyar moved quickly to ban his opponents from ever running again and even started legal proceedings against some. In Germany, the AfD is wildly popular with the people, but not with the ruling party or the commissars in the EU. Hence, it is subject to unending harassment and may be banned altogether. In France, Marine Le Pen was put under house arrest and required to wear an electronic ankle monitor. In Romania, when the “wrong” candidate ran, the election was cancelled, and the winner was banned from running. This is what Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU, means by “democracy”: submission to the diktats of the European Union.

In Poland, the usual mold may be being broken. As I write, we are still in a fog-of-war situation. Many things have been tossed up into the air. It is not entirely clear where they all will land. …

What happened:

The prime minister since 2023 has been Donald Tusk, an EU poodle and liberal authoritarian. The president since 2025 is Karol Nawrocki, an anti-EU, Poland-first populist who wants Poland to keep its own currency, have control of its borders, and sharply limit immigration.

Here’s what happened. On Friday night, Nawrocki departed on an official trip to Senegal. His plane was over Spain when he received word that Tusk had unilaterally suspended some duly appointed judges and other officials, elevated a judge loyal to him to the chief spot, and called in riot police to surround Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal. …

Dominik Tarczyński:

What is happening right now with the Constitutional Tribunal is that [Tusk and the globalists] want to take it over and fill it with their own people.

Why? Because they want to get rid of the Polish currency, bring us into the eurozone, and eliminate our secure borders. They are being pushed by the Germans, who want to spread the burden of illegal migration and send migrants to Poland.

First of all, the Polish złoty is our constitutionally protected currency. They have to change the Constitution to replace it, and without the Constitutional Tribunal, they cannot do that.

So, number one, they want to get rid of our currency and force us to adopt the euro and join the eurozone. Then they want to take our gold reserves, the largest in the European Union, to Frankfurt, to the European Central Bank, which is a German-based institution.

They also want to open our borders. And they want to make sure that when they lose the next elections, which are coming next year, the Constitutional Tribunal will be unable to do anything to stop their actions or reverse what they have done.

Why now? Brivael Le Pogam:

Because the globalist project is losing its grip.

They lost the media war: people get their information elsewhere, compare, verify, and no longer trust the official line. They lost the trust of the people. And the countries that are bouncing back, the ones finding their energy, their birth rates, their pride again, are precisely the ones that understood that the Brussels machine, as it runs today, is not the cure but the disease. Poles elected Nawrocki against the system’s candidate. The message was clear.

When a system loses trust, it has two options: reform or harden. They chose. All-in. …

The official story is “we are restoring the rule of law.” It’s always the official story. Nobody has ever dismantled a democracy while announcing they were dismantling a democracy.

In Poland it’s about Polish sovereignty and Polish submission to the globalist agenda of the EU. But the same battle is being played out everywhere:

The countries already taken back:

🇺🇸 United States: Trump
🇦🇷 Argentina: Milei
🇸🇻 El Salvador: Bukele
🇨🇴 Colombia: Abelardo de la Espriella, elected in June
🇨🇱 Chile: Kast, in power since March
🇵🇪 Peru: Keiko Fujimori, elected in June
🇪🇨 Ecuador: Noboa
🇧🇴 Bolivia: Rodrigo Paz, after nearly 20 years of MAS
🇭🇳 Honduras: Asfura
🇵🇾 Paraguay: Peña
🇮🇹 Italy: Meloni
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: Babiš
🇸🇰 Slovakia: Fico
🇵🇱 Poland: Nawrocki in the presidency

The countries in the midst of flipping:

🇫🇷 France: RN is polling between 31 and 37% in the first round.

🇩🇪 Germany: AfD scored 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt in September, against 17.2% for the CDU.

Let’s be clear-eyed: they’re still winning some battles. Orbán fell in Hungary in April. Lula took back Brazil a week ago. The system knows how to defend itself. But we need to look at the underlying trend, not the latest match.

Politics has gone fully international. There are the same two sides everywhere now, and everyone knows it. Globalists versus nationalists. Post-modern left and Islam versus everyone else.

Self-government versus bureaucracy, and the rebirth of communism in Poland. By Krzysztof Szczawinski (of Poland).

What is happening in Poland … is about whether nations … can govern themselves, or whether they are all turned into a gray mass that can only be administered until we die out.

Everyone knows what being administered feels like. You have made this phone call. Your case is being processed. The woman on the line is polite, and she can’t decide anything. Neither can her manager. Somewhere there is a rule, and nobody you can reach wrote it. Nobody lied to you. Nobody is responsible. You hang up feeling smaller, and you can’t say who did it.

Now imagine that phone call as a country. Then as a continent. …

Ask who has the last word in Poland, and the answer moves to Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Venice. And a year before Poles could settle it themselves at the ballot box, the argument arrives in riot gear. …

Popper put it most plainly, saying the question is not so much who should rule, but how to remove them without blood. Poles can remove Tusk in 2027 and Nawrocki in 2030. Who removes a judge in Luxembourg? Try it. Call them. Your case is being processed. …

Administered until we die out:

Tocqueville saw it coming, describing a power that doesn’t break the will but softens it, until a nation is a flock of timid, busy animals with the government as its shepherd. Communism needed tanks, and it lost. The new gray needs only forms, and it gets thanked.

Poles know that gray. We lived in it. The difference is that back then, you knew whom to hate.

Why Poland? Because Poland ran the experiment. For 123 years there was no Polish state on any map. Three empires administered the Poles, and they stayed a people, in language, prayer and memory. Then in 1980 the workers built a union … Solidarity. Poland knows from experience that a nation is not its state, and can outlive one.

But Poland isn’t safe. Germany, the land of efficient administration, is just across the border, and it is stronger and richer than us. It doesn’t need to plot anything — the forms do the job. And even to some Poles being administered may sound easier than the responsibility of self-government. …

Bureaucracy or self-government?

So the question is not whether Poland stays in Europe. It is whether anyone in Europe can still say “we”, mean it, and answer for it.

Nations are no longer conquered. They are wound down, in full compliance, with a final report nobody reads.

Donald Tusk and the rebirth of communism in Poland:

Post-communism was born in 1989, of a lie. We were told communism had ended. It had only changed its name. The communists handed over the government and kept the rest. The change was real on the surface and fake underneath.

Every lie needs a charming face. Post-communism found its best one in Donald Tusk, Poland’s Tony Blair: modern, smiling, fluent in the language the West wanted to hear. Brussels loved him, and in time post-communism grew into Euro-communism: the same apparatus, the same contempt for the voter, now speaking the language of “European values”.

 

This week, the face slipped. Riot police kept the Chief Justice out of his own Constitutional Tribunal, and the government called it restoring the rule of law.

A lie that needs the police has stopped persuading anyone. Lies do not die gently. They stand until the day they fall all at once. In 1989, we were told that day had come. It had only been postponed. Now this lie is coming to an end — and this time, the end will be real.

Good luck, Poland.

America Innovates, Europe Regulates. By Tetsuo Si.

Europe Formed a Committee (Official Music Video):

 

Chaser:

 

Related:

 

Sarah Hoyt:

It was always a tendency of Europe. Having lost the lead in the race to the future circa the early 20th century, Europe prided itself on being more considerate and careful. But the EU just tied them up in red tape and blindfolded them with stories of how much worse things were in America. (All of them BS.)

via Lawrence Person

Whither patriotism? By Dan Hannan in The Washington Examiner.

US versus UK:

A new arrival in the U.S., unless he ends up working in a university or for a federal agency, is surrounded by a patriotic and self-confident culture. Even if he gets a government job, he will pass plenty of flagpoles on his way to work. He will be invited to Fourth of July parties. He will watch uplifting movies.

In Britain, the story is a much bleaker one. Our intellectual elites are so self-loathing that flying the national flag feels subversive, almost as if the country were under occupation. Hence the bizarre phenomenon where, in working-class districts, people will fly British or, more often, English flags from lamp-posts, signaling their contempt both for mass immigration and for their governing caste.

This culture makes it much harder for the children of settlers to integrate. All the crimes I listed above were carried out, not by immigrants, but by the products of British schools. Their parents might have felt a sense of pride in their new country, but the authorities of that country soon knocked it out of their children. …

Did you know?

A century ago, Britain was occupying the ancestral homelands of many of its immigrant communities. Yet, in two world wars, their young men enlisted in huge numbers.

The Indian Army formed to fight in World War I was the second-largest volunteer force in the history of the human race. The largest? The Indian Army formed to fight in World War II.

Reading those volunteers’ letters home — there was no conscription outside the U.K. itself — you are struck by the sense they had that they were defending something worth fighting for, that the values of the Anglosphere were preferable to those of the European autocracies. Mahatma Gandhi was explicit in urging his countrymen to join up. “India would be nowhere without Englishmen. If the British do not win, to whom shall we go claiming equal partnership? Shall we go to the victorious German or Turk or Afghan for it?”

Those words would be greeted with jeering incredulity in any British classroom now, so entrenched is the White Man Bad narrative.

French edging towards civil war. By Basil the Great.

People are boarding up their stores and simply writing one word across the front “REMIGRATION”.

🚨AMAZING FOOTAGE OUT OF FRANCE FOLLOWING MORE RIOTS

People are boarding up their stores and simply writing one word across the front

“REMIGRATION”

The people know what needs to happen pic.twitter.com/dpMTTEMA1c

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) October 31, 2026

 

Rioters in France are now storming private properties. … This is how civilization falls, the Police cannot stop them.

🚨RIOTERS IN FRANCE ARE NOW STORMING PRIVATE PROPERTIES

These people will leave nothing untouched

This is how civilization falls, the Police cannot stop them pic.twitter.com/00Wwz2yaUG

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) October 31, 2026

 

Commenters:

Think how much of their hard earned money is being paid in taxes for a police force that won’t protect them or their property. The social contract is broken. Government only has one legitimate purpose: protection of citizens. No protection, no contract. …

You saw it the Ceuta, once the shops are looted they’ll raid the homes. In some cases, even before the shops run dry. …

The civilians don’t have guns, not like in the US.