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April 21, 2026

DRAIN THE SWAMP:

Full details here.

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

BREAKING:

Trump: “Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other.”

So the regime not showing up in Pakistan for the talks might have been less about intransigence and more about political chaos.

Regardless, the blockade remains in place, and that’s the most important pressure point.

UPDATE:

If — again, if — the IRGC has seized what’s left of the civilian government leadership, it’s hard to see how the ceasefire extension lasts very long. Those guys are hardcore revolutionary Islamists.

Posted at 4:25 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

MORE ON ACTBLUE:

Maybe the entire Democratic Party needs to come under RICO scrutiny.

Posted at 4:04 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

CORN, POPPED:

Posted at 3:03 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Exit quote: America “evolved in a very different direction, and upon separation, with some struggle, arrived at our own form of governance. With an emphasis on individual freedom our fellows in the greater Anglosphere lack. Once you notice all of that, a lot of it starts to make more sense.”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 21st, 2026

THEODORE DALRYMPLE: We Shall Not Fight on the Beaches.

In 1973, Jean Raspail, who died aged 94 in 2020, published his dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints, for which he is now mostly remembered (certainly outside of France, though he was the author of many other well-considered novels and travelogues, and narrowly missed election to the Académie française). The Camp of the Saints is a book that refuses to lie down, so to speak, despite attempts to render it invisible or make it go away.

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Immigrants are not just immigrants. What they bring with them is as important as what they are offered by the host country. If what they bring with them is an evangelizing religion that claims, however fatuously, to be the answer to all of mankind’s little problems, a religion moreover that has a very strong hold over them and that is maintained by an effective system of social ostracism in the event of dissent, they will obviously have more difficulty integrating than if they have no such religion.

Raspail’s flawed novel is an illustration of an elementary political principle. For a liberal democracy to work, there must be a demos; for there to be a demos, there must be something more in common among them than living geographically cheek-by-jowl (without at the same time demanding an absolute uniformity). To import huge numbers of people who do not share, and indeed are resistant to sharing, the minimum that holds a demos together is inimical to liberal democracy.

In this most important sense Jean Raspail was visionary, even if he did not correctly identify the source of the greatest threat. Perhaps the most revealing thing in the book is his account, in the essay that precedes the novel, of how prominent political figures either ignored or repudiated The Camp of the Saints in public, but agreed with it in private. It proved to be a disastrous disjunction.

It’s the good Dr. Dalrymple, so read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Éric Zemmour’s The Suicide of France. The definitive account of France after de Gaulle is now available in English.

UPDATE (4/21/26): The same lefties who rail against banned books everywhere rejoiced yesterday when Amazon banned the paperback edition of Ethan Rundell’s 2025 translation of The Camp of the Saints. Amazon has since made the book available for purchase again: Amazon Didn’t Ban The Camp Of The Saints Because It’s ‘Offensive’ But Because It Resonates.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 21st, 2026

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION:

Posted at 2:02 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM… LOTS OF THEM, ACTUALLY:

If the Islamic Republic wants war, that’s what it’ll get.

Posted at 1:29 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026

EVEN SAN FRANCISCO CAN SELF-CORRECT… EVENTUALLY:

What a shame there will be no accountability for the people responsible for the mess now being cleaned up.

Posted at 12:58 pm by Stephen Green on Apr 21st, 2026
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