As PJ O'Rourke said when endorsing Hillary Clinton in 2016, 'She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters.'Which might make sense were it not for the fact that, as that book admired by Bill Kristol argued to no apparent avail, our world is no longer "within normal parameters". By mid-century, the peoples of most of the rest of the west face demographic dispossession in some of the oldest nation-states on the planet. America has a different history - or at any rate a different mythology - yet even here, in 1950, New York City was ninety per cent white; now it's thirty-three per cent and falling. Such a population evolution in the span of a single lifetime is not "within normal parameters" ouside of plague or conquest, and yet it has happened, to America's biggest city, to America's biggest state, and to a zillion less glittering jurisdictions in between.
So now the country's most famous "conservatives" have effortlessly expanded the norms of their parameters from Hillary to Kamala to Zohran:
Even Bill Kristol Says He Would Vote for Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor
These norms don't sound very normal to me. Immigration is at the root of pretty much everything everywhere - rising crime, wage stagnation, failing schools, dysfunction in the medical system, the unaffordability of first homes, later family formation if at all, Jew massacres on Bondi Beach, blonde gang-rapes in Sweden, pub closures in England.......
The suggestion that the peoples who built the modern world seem to be being "replaced" is still a big no-no. If you even use the word "replacement", the totalitarian wankers who run YouTube will slap a warning on your video. Just a fortnight back, the Lotus Eaters in the UK did a show on the dying Conservative Party, whose senior members are defecting to Nigel Farage's Reform UK almost daily. So they headlined their video:
The Great Tory Replacement
- ie, Reform are gradually replacing the Tories as the de facto opposition party to Sir Keir Starmer's miserable ministry. (Or, alternatively, has-been Tory opportunists are replacing whatever genuine populist impulses Reform might ever have had.)
But the
algorithm is simultaneously omnipotent and moronic. So because the Lotus Eaters used a hitherto common word of wide application - "replacement" - YouTube (as I write) has appended to the video the following warning:
The Great Replacement, also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a debunked white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory coined by French author Renaud Camus.
So one can no longer use the word "replacement" even if talking about Kemi Badenoch having to find a replacement for someone who briefly served as Lord Privy Seal under Rishi Sunak...
Sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive.
Speaking of the Reform Party, Nigel Farage has now announced his soi-disant "shadow cabinet". The three "Great Offices of State" have been parcelled out as follows: Shadow Foreign Secretary is Nadhim Zahawi; Shadow Home Secretary is Zia Yusuf; the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer is not (yet) a Muslim but a new "great office" combining business, industry and energy is to be created for Deputy Leader Richard Tice. Mr Tice is also not (yet) a Muslim, but per The Guardian:
Reform deputy leader Richard Tice splitting time between Skegness and Dubai
...because his bird's a "tax exile" there. In the aforementioned disco era, that phrase meant Roger Moore decamping to Switzerland; today it means key figures of the alleged populist far-right white-nationalist neo-Fascist party moving to the United Arab Emirates to avoid VAT on school fees.
Gee, it's almost like the widely debunked conspiracy theory has already happened.
Where exactly are these "normal parameters" of which one hears so much from eminent conservatives? It might be nice to move there.
https://www.steynonline.com/15934/norms-and-parameters