Why Conservatism Is Gaining Universal Appeal - Natural Law, Common Sense, And Culture

There have been remarkable conservative victories in Latin America, a region historically socialist, and the Presidents of El Salvador, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, and Panama have taken strong stances on crime, public spending, taxation, and individual rights.

Nations in Western Europe have followed suit with Italy's President Giorgia Meloni leading the way, followed closely by likely winners in the next elections, Le Pen of France and Farage in Britain, Wilders in the Netherlands; and an Eastern Europe led by Poland and Hungary have become conservative stalwarts. 

 

This conservatism is bold, aggressive, and undaunted.  Bukele in El Salvador has redefined civil rights, stating unequivocally that the rights of the ordinary Salvadoran citizen to live in a peaceful, crime-free country trumps the rights of criminals; and accordingly he has rounded up members of the violent MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha gang, incarcerated them without the usual democratic due process, and has turned the country from one of the most violent in the hemisphere to the safest. 

Javier Milei of Argentina has made no bones about calling the socialist Left 'mierda', bloodsucking parasites on the body politic, taking money from the most productive and wasting it on unaccountable, fairy tale programs with no discipline, no objective indicators, and nothing but vain, self-serving, give-away appeal. 

Meloni of Italy has said she is proud of Italy's history, culture, and Christian leadership, and has refused the blandishments of the Left which has led to the uncontrolled illegal immigration from Africa, a Muslim wave which has threatened social stability and cultural integrity.  She has ruled that no LGBTQ proselytizing will not be allowed in Italian schools and that gay marriage and parentage is no longer officially recognized.  

 

Marine Le Pen and Marion Marechal in France have been even more defiant and have vowed if elected to cleanse France of the anti-democratic, divisive, hateful Muslim invasion. Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch of the UK have both denounced illegal, Muslim immigration and have said that legendary English culture is being eroded, derogated, and destroyed because of this unwanted influx. 

Sanae Takaichi, the new president of Japan has said that there will be no Muslim immigration to Japan, that no mosques will be built, and that despite the country's falling birth rate, she refuses to destroy its homogeneous culture.  

China, while officially Communist is socially conservative and committed to the universal extension of Han culture, adherence to Confucian values, and nationalism. Vladimir Putin is as committed to Russian cultural, social, economic, and political hegemony. 

These leaders and their constituents laughed at America during the Biden years - an unrecognizable country of fiction, absurdity, and self-indulgence.  The very idea of the gender spectrum, let alone transgenderism was unconscionable; and the lionization of the black man, former slave drawn from the African forest for his physical strength and fertility, was equally unthinkable.  Integration perhaps, but undeserved honor and privilege? Never.  

Americans might overlook the ghetto in the name of identity but not the rest of the world. Open borders are tantamount to erosion of the state, culture, and the nation. 

The arrival of Donald Trump has been welcomed by these countries.  Even America's adversaries, Russia and China, have given Trump respect.  He is a member of their Machiavellian realpolitik club, and such members can do business together.  The rest of the increasingly conservative world has looked to America for leadership and example. 

This conservatism is fueled by three things - natural law, common sense, and culture.  No one but America's progressives can look at history and see peace and internationalism in the offing - a naive misreading at best and a profound ignorance at worst. 

Self-interest is the driving force of human nature and has been played out in every social arena from family to tribe to region to country. Countervailing force, defiant opposition, territorialism, and hegemony have been the human rule since the first settlements and will continue.  Geopolitics should be based on that understanding, nothing more. 

Americans with their gender focus have rejected natural biological law just as they have dismissed the absolute of human nature.  No one but American liberals claim that sexuality is a matter of choice.  Such ignorance is remarkable. 

It only takes common sense to realize that open immigration will destroy the cultural underpinnings of a culture, will lead to a dismissal of nations' storied past, and will alter the central ethos forever.  It takes only common sense to realize that a nation without border integrity will be overrun, taken over, and weakened. 

Perhaps because America is such a new country without the thousand-year history of its adversaries and allies, and because it has no central moral, religious, or philosophical ethos, it defies the concept of culture.  Yet France, 'the eldest daughter of the Catholic Church', the nation that saved European Christianity from the Muslim invaders, is profoundly and historically 'cultural'.  So is Italy, Russia, China, and Japan. 

No nation has been successful without such a central, universal, cultural core.  Ethics and moral principles are important and the same ones have characterized the highest civilizations since Greece and Rome. 

The Left cries racism, xenophobia, nationalism, sexism, and homophobia; but these are empty threats, built on fictitious, unfounded, fabulist imaginings. National cultural integrity is not xenophobia but an expression defining human society since its origins.  

Traditional marriage and parentage is not homophobic but subscription to natural law, Biblical injunction and demographic reality. Pie-in-the-sky public spending has bankrupted, corrupted, and destroyed the strongest countries.  Idealism is for religious worship not public policy. 

The American Left still cannot get over the victory of Donald Trump and his fulfilled promises of returning the country to its originalist roots. No president has been so hated, vilified, and been the victim of such inchoate attacks.  The Left’s failed vision, one without historical validation and defying logic is empty of policy, salient ideas, or resonance.  Hatred is the only thing left in the armory. 

The Left looks with horror at the conservative wave across the globe and sees it as only a temporary setback to progressive ideals.  Their day will come. 

Perhaps. History has its surprises and vagaries; but such a reversal is unlikely since conservativism is based on historical appraisal, objectivity, human nature, and reality. Progressivism is based only on idealism, hope, utopianism, and fancy.