Victor Davis Hanson,
writing in
National Review, about the failures of our society. First, a specific:
New Confederate-style nullificationists in San Francisco demand that federal immigration statutes not apply to their sanctuary city, even as they insist that a minor clerk in Kentucky be jailed for nullifying a Supreme Court edict allowing gay marriage. Kim Davis should indeed be jailed for obstructing a federal mandate, but only after the neo-Confederate nullificationist mayor, Board of Supervisors, and sheriff of San Francisco.
Followed by the generality:
For now, we are in a cycle of Western decline, waiting either for another Churchill, Thatcher, or Reagan to scold us out of it — or for an existential enemy, foreign or domestic, of such power and danger that all our progressive pieties will dissipate in the face of danger.
Bounty to boredom to decadence to panic to reawakening to ascendance has always been the cyclical way of the West.
Its curse has been that the cycles of nihilism are as long as they are unnecessary.
Let's hope we don't have to experience another dire Middle Ages before reemerging into the light.
