


As Washington Post reporter Dan Balz wrote on Saturday, Democrats see “‘demography is destiny’. Indeed, the logic of importing more left-wing voters is a common thought among contemporary Democratic politicos. The old concern about “the consent of the governed” is thus replaced by a new imperative: “manipulation by the governors.” If the existing group of voters fails to live up to progressive ideals, there’s a simple solution: Get new voters.

But in their work, the two men agreed on one simple point: If a country imports a new population, it will get a new politics–and a new everything else.įor today’s Democrats in America, and for the multicultural left as a whole, that, of course, is the goal. Gibbon, who died in 1794, was an English historian, while Raspail, now almost 90, is a French novelist. Gibbon and Raspail are very different figures. In the second part of this series, we will recall a more recent–and perhaps even scarier–work from the 20th century, Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints. In the first part of this series, we recalled Edward Gibbon’s magisterial history from the 18th century, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and noted the ominous parallels for America today.
