Friday, December 26, 2025

Our Elites Are Insane – HotAir

December 26, 2025
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Ed mentioned this story in his Wednesday Final Word. Still, I have to assume that at least a few of you were sharing some Christmas Eve cheer with friends and family instead of doing what every normal person in the world was doing, which was checking in on what the geniuses at Hot Air had to say. 





This story encapsulates what is so wrong with the transnational elite, who are so divorced not just from the ordinary Westerner, but from the foundations of Western society itself. 

How insane are our elites? This insane:

The folks over at POLITICOEurope are scandalized by the fact that the “extreme” right wing are casting Christmas as a Christian holiday, weaponizing the idea that this clearly secular and multicultural state holiday is being tied to a religion that throws gays off of roofs, promotes child marriage, takes over streets for evening prayer, and has adherents who seem to get it in their mind that raping young girls and occasionally murdering civilians for religious reasons. 

Oh, wait, that is a different religion. 

As usual, The Babylon Bee predicted this. 

Christians wanting to practice Christianity on Christmas is a threat to the proper order of the world. 

ROME — Christmas is becoming a new front line in Europe’s culture wars.

Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left.

The trope echoes a familiar refrain across the Atlantic that was first propagated by Fox News, where hosts have inveighed against a purported “War on Christmas” for years. U.S. President Donald Trump claims to have “brought back” the phrase “Merry Christmas” in the United States, framing it as defiance against political correctness. Now, European far-right parties more usually focused on immigration or law-and-order concerns have adopted similar language, recasting Christmas as the latest battleground in a broader struggle over culture.





Is it perhaps true that there is an elite hostility to Christianity, and that it is getting a far different treatment than religions that are actually alien to Western culture?

In Great Britain there are cities that put up trees, but explicitly make them “multicultural” in order to avoid offending their Muslim citizens. Muslims have been invading Christmas markets and even attacking them, with several terrorist attacks barely avoided. 

Ironically enough, Emirates Airlines is more in the Christmas spirit than European airlines, which have been carefully avoiding the use of the word “Christmas.” 





POLITICO wants you to know that the Islamification of Europe and the growing Muslim presence in other Western countries is a myth. All those bollards protecting Christmas markets are perfectly normal, and it is only crazy right wingers who think that Christianity is being driven out of the public square as Islam replaces it. 

In Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made the defense of Christmas traditions central to her political identity. She has repeatedly framed the holiday as part of the nation’s endangered heritage, railing against what she calls “ideological” attempts to dilute it.

“How can my culture offend you?” Meloni has asked in the past, defending nativity scenes in public spaces. She has argued that children should learn the values of the Nativity — rather than just associating Christmas with food and presents — and rejected the idea that long-standing traditions should be altered. This year, Meloni said she was abstaining from alcohol until Christmas, portraying herself as a practitioner of spirituality and tradition.  

France’s National Rally and Spain’s Vox have similarly opposed secularist or “woke” efforts to replace religious imagery with neutral seasonal language, and advocated for nativity scenes in town halls. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has warned that Christmas markets are losing their “German character,” amplifying disinformation about Muslim traditions edging out Christian ones.

It’s pure gaslighting. 





A number of Gulf countries are trying to Westernize, banning the Muslim Brotherhood, and ensuring that Christians actually feel more welcome there than in some places in the West. While no Muslim country will ever truly Westernize, the leaders in many are working to modernize and integrate more fully with the West. 

Christians in Western countries should not go out of their way to make Muslims afraid to practice their religion. We believe in freedom of religion. But if your religion requires suppressing the practice of others, such as Christianity, then too bad. Christianity is integral to Western culture. 

Even Richard Dawkins, the most famous atheist in the world who has long been dismissive of Christianity, has come around to the truth that Christian values are integral to our culture and should be celebrated, not suppressed. When Dawkins is worried that the West is losing its Christian roots, perhaps extremist right-wingers have a point, POLITICO. 





There is a reason why, until recently, the West was often referred to as Christendom. Roughly speaking, the West could until recently be defined as those countries that overlapped with the extent of the Roman Empire at its height, although Western values spread after the Enlightenment. That a very rough and ready definition, but for my purposes it works in this context. 

Transnationalists obviously are hostile to Christianity. That is obviously their right as individuals and even a legitimate political argument to make, but to pretend that there is not a transnationalist hostility to Christianity and that it is “extreme” to fight back against this is pure gaslighting. 

It’s as ridiculous as the lefties claiming that JD Vance was exaggerating that for many years white people have been asked or even forced to apologize for being white. The entire ideology of “decolonization” is based on hostility to whiteness, and they say so openly. 

The folks at POLITICO may think it is a good idea that Christianity is being pushed out of the public square. Fair enough. Make your case. 





But you can’t make a persuasive case based on a lie, and its right to call out lies. 







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