Given the behavior of its “protectors,” you have to wonder.
Twenty years ago, I wrote:
In mid-2004, there was born a Website which proposed to hold an international plebiscite on the upcoming American elections. The thesis was that since what the United States does “affects” the entire world — yes, those are “sneer quotes” — then the world should have as much say in the selection of American officialdom as the American citizens do. Say what you will about the “logic” behind such a proposition, we must grant its audacity at the very least.
That campaign season also featured a letter-writing campaign by British glitterati, including rabid anti-theist Richard Dawkins and hack novelist David Cornwell (a.k.a. “John LeCarre”), to voters in selected American “swing states.” The writers urged their American targets to vote for the Democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry — say, did you know he served in Vietnam? Imagine that! — on the grounds that President Bush was “stupid,” a “bully,” a “theocrat,” was “universally hated,” was waging “an illegal war,” or any possible combination thereof.
Today, of course, we have Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of that famously “democratic” nation Ukraine, campaigning in Pennsylvania, a key “swing state,” for Kamala Harris for president. And just yesterday, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told us we mustn’t return Donald Trump to the White House.
If this isn’t election interference by foreign nationals, what would qualify? Don’t ask the Democrats to answer that question; they’d just call you a racist. But I digress. One could argue that for a foreign potentate to express a preference for the next American president is harmless. After all, he can’t vote in the U.S…. I think. But the hypocrisy of the thing, given the rationale for the second Trump impeachment and trial, is striking.
To return briefly to that twenty-year-old essay:
[W]henever a government compromises its nation’s integrity for the sake of another nation, or the subjects of another nation, it’s acting from the supranationalist premise. In so doing, it degrades the interests of its own people, implicitly or explicitly, to favor other peoples. It ceases to act as its citizens’ delegated agent, and assumes the prerogatives of their owner, who may dispose of their rights and prerogatives as it pleases, without their consent.
The Biden Regime, whose second fiddle is campaigning to continue its Reign of Error for another four years, has been acting as if what matters to Americans is less important than just about anything else in the world. Now we have the spectacle of foreigners, including one whose regime is a huge financial beneficiary of Biden’s, openly taking part in the Harris campaign. Where’s the outrage over this blatant pleading by a foreign potentate for America to embroil itself in a world war?
This is the sort of behavior John Emerich Edward Dalberg, better known to history as Lord Acton, had in mind when he said that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Democrats are perfectly okay with foreign rulers meddling in American elections as long as it serves their purposes. But were Javier Milei or Giorgia Meloni to visit the U.S. to campaign for President Trump, the Democrats’ screams would be audible on Mars.
Globalism… supranationalism… is there a meaningful difference? Both seek to erase the nation called the United States of America. Tot up the foreigners and multinationals that favor that erasure and copper your bets on the outcome. Nothing else matters. All else is froth and gas.
