The historian John Lukacs used to say all the old “isms” of politics were defunct.
They’ve become “wasms,” except one — nationalism.
Lukacs died five years ago, but the relentless anti-Israel protests on America’s campuses today testify to the truth of his insight.
So does the attempt by authorities in the capital of the European Union bureaucracy to quash a “National Conservatism” conference two weeks ago.
The mayor of Brussels was quick to order police to shut down the conference that brought speakers such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Brexit mastermind Nigel Farage to his city.
Naturally, he claimed he was only doing this to protect everyone from the threat of radical protesters wreaking havoc on the conference and city alike — as if preemptively censoring National Conservatives with government power was the only…
