The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Left Turns Right What are we to make of the Anglosphere political leadership’s abrupt narrative reversal towards immigration restrictionism and rhetorical nativism? John Carter In the wake of America’s 2024 election a curious narrative shift has been unfolding within the political leadership of Canada and Great Britain. The moment he assumed the office of Prime Minister, Canada’s Mark Carney played up the country’s founding British and French (and, of course, Indigenous) heritage, referring to Canada as the  ‘most European of non-European countries’ , deploying nativist rhetoric that hasn’t been heard from the country’s Liberal politicians in living memory and thereby rejecting by implication the official stance of multiculturalism that has dominated Canadian politics since the elder Trudeau. To back up his commitment to Canada,  Carney renounced his Irish and UK citizenships , symbolically burning his boats on the beach, and implicitly repudiating  other membe...

  The Enduring Power of Nazi Derangement Syndrome 90 years later and still going strong Donald Jeffries The National Socialist German Workers Party had a rather short life span, existing from 1920-1945. With that “Socialist” word in there, you’d think that it designated some kind of far Left, Bolshevik inspired movement. But from the very beginning, the Nazis- as they came to be known to the world- were depicted as extremely right-wing. There seems to be no credible evidence that the National Socialists ever called themselves Nazis, and present day “extremists” contend that it was a derogatory term coined by influential German journalist Konrad Heiden, who was predictably enough a Jew. The court historians counter by claiming that in 1926, propagandist extraordinaire Josef Goebbels used the term “Nazi-Sozi” as an abbreviation for National Socialists. Knowing what I do about the absolute lack of credibility on the part of the court historians, I am naturally dubious about this. Thus...