Across the Atlantic, regular folks are waking up to the same threats we’ve been warning about for years.
Call me crazy, but sometimes you find wisdom in unexpected places. A columnist at the Financial Times—not exactly my usual reading material—wrote something this week that stopped me cold. He’s predicting that European conservatives unite around protecting their civilization from outside threats. And I thought: finally. Someone gets it.
The writer, Janan Ganesh, makes a point that regular Americans have understood for years: when your way of life is under siege, you band together. He says the essential oneness of Europe was a conservative theme before it was a liberal one. Think about that. Protecting what matters isn’t some globalist agenda. It’s common sense.
They See What’s Coming
According to Ganesh, European conservatives are starting to realize they need to stick together against “hostile giants” who want to push them around. He mentions tariffs, tech dominance, even that whole Greenland situation. These folks are tired of being bullied. They want to protect their communities, their traditions, their people.
Sound familiar? It should. I’ve been saying something similar about the forces arrayed against regular Americans for years. The details are different, but the instinct is the same: when powerful interests threaten your way of life, you don’t roll over. You push back.
European Conservatives Unite for Survival
What struck me most was this line: there’s no longer only a liberal case for European unity, but one that’s more about strength in numbers against external predators. External predators. Let that sink in. These Europeans see exactly what we see—big, powerful forces that don’t care about ordinary people, that will steamroll communities and traditions if given half a chance.
The article even mentions how younger Europeans have grown up watching their continent get pushed around. They’re angry. They’re organizing. They want their leaders to stand up and say: enough.
What We Could Learn
Here’s what gets me. These European conservatives—people the media would probably call “far right” just for wanting to preserve their culture—they’re figuring out that unity is strength. They’re putting aside smaller differences to face the bigger threat.
Meanwhile, what are we doing? We’re fighting each other over nonsense while the real threats gather. Maybe we could take a page from their book. Maybe regular Americans need to unite the way these European conservatives unite—not because some politician tells us to, but because we see what’s at stake.
I read that Financial Times piece three times. I don’t agree with everything in it. But I recognize the instinct. These are people who love their communities and don’t want to see them erased by forces beyond their control. They’re not asking permission. They’re not waiting for experts to tell them it’s okay to care.
That’s called solidarity. And I’m full of it.
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