Many
are hailing the results of the Italian election last Sunday as another sign
that the European Union is doomed to collapse.
We are glad the Italians are helping to unwind that Elitist/globalist
project.
Set
against this backdrop, let us now look at what is happening in the [u]nited
States with the Trump administration, which is also touted as being
anti-globalist, populist, for the empowerment of the little guy, etc. Attorney-General Jeff Sessions had this to say
to California about her actions regarding federal immigration law:
“Immigration law is
the province of the federal government,” Sessions said. “There is no
nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is the supreme law of the
land.”
“I would invite any
doubters to go to Gettysburg,” he added. “This matter has been settled.”
Source: Sharon Bernstein, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-immigration/california-governor-says-trump-administration-waging-war-against-state-idUSKCN1GJ2IF, opened 8 March 2018
A
couple of quick points before the more important ones. First, California’s actions regarding
immigration are suicidal; we are not defending her actions with what we say
below. Second, the so-called Civil War
didn’t settle the issues of secession and nullification: It only interrupted the conversation about
them for a time. Tom Woods has a great
line about this: If two people are
arguing, and one of them throws a brick at the other person’s head, yes, the
argument stops, but it hasn’t been won by the brick-thrower. (A further aside: Both concepts, secession and nullification,
are now so saturated by Enlightenment thinking, that they must be pursued with
a great deal of caution.)
But
the larger point is this: AG Sessions’
comments show the danger of Trumpism to healthy regional life and identity in
the States. The federal government, the
nation of ‘America’, the Holy Constitution, must take precedence over all. American nationalism is a force that will
destroy all local and regional cultures (except New England’s, because this is
where it got its start) if it is not stopped.
The American nation, especially as it is conceived of by Sessions,
Trump, Dr Richard Land, Lincoln, Joseph Story, Hamilton, and their fellow
travelers IS THE SAME THING AS THE EUROPEAN UNION. It is a bureaucratic, busybody state that
imposes its own will wherever and whenever it likes, regardless of local
circumstances. It does not acknowledge
the deep cultural differences among its captive members.
The
national American governing apparatus is an artificial corporation (Dr Donald
Livingston) with no real organic roots in the life of a people (Fr Matt.
Johnson). What is real, as Prof Donald
Davidson, writes, are the regional cultures.
The States themselves were somewhat artificial creations, sundering
geographical, and therefore cultural, areas where no real division
existed. However that may be, each State
now manifests in a unique way the common regional culture to which she belongs.
The
regions, the States, and the smaller regions within each State: these are real; these deserve to be defended. Not the umbrella corporation in Washington
City that was unwisely set up by the States.
If
the peoples of the States really want to join the traditionalist, populist
movements that they admire in places like Lombardy, Flanders, and elsewhere,
they will have to recover and embrace their own local cultures and histories,
and organize religious, political, familial, and economic structures to defend
them. Pres Trump, for all the good
things he may say and do, and the false notion of American nationalism in
general, are not the answers. They will
only lead to further difficulties, at home and abroad, in the days ahead.
The
Constitution of 1787 was intended all along to neuter the States, to
consolidate power in a national government, which Anti-Federalists like Brutus
and Patrick Henry saw at the time. The
current Constitution would either end in an all-powerful national government or
fall apart under sectional strain. The
States have been on the path of the former for quite a while now, and it has
not been a very enjoyable walk. It is time to peacefully pursue the
latter: separation of the sections.
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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