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Ilana Mercer has written a weekly, paleolibertarian column since 1999. Her latest book is The Tump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) may no longer seem relevant, but that is not his fault. Mencken was a well-read bon vivant with a taste for Teutonic philosophy and a fidelity to what he understood as truth. He was also a brilliant satirist, a longtime writer for the Baltimore Sun, and editor of The American Mercury. His facility with the English idiom and grasp of intellectual history are unsurpassed. How can an aristocratic individualist like Mencken appeal to an age which makes idols out of equality and “democracy”? He can’t and shouldn’t.
You may tell a toddler, “You can’t go there.” But you may not tell an illegal trespasser, “Hey, turn back. You can’t come into the U.S. at whim.”
Our Anti-Federalist philosophical fathers fought to forestall the inevitable. For that we must salute them.
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