PoliGazette: ‘They Don’t Seem to Realize Who They’re Dealing With’
Charles Johnson
Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 12:08 pm PST • Views: 206
At the new European group blog PoliGazette, Michael van der Galien has a good post about the Vlaams Belang controversy: More on Neo Nazis and Vlaams Belang.
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago: American conservatives should be very careful whom they associate with. There are some European conservatives out there who, like myself, are immigration and foreign policy hawks and who are absolutely not bigots. However, although we’re conservative for European standards, we’re often Centrist for American standards. This means that American conservatives and European conservatives will disagree on a number of issues. But, we’ve got to accept these differences if we want to be able to deal with the challenges the West faces today. The only alternative for American conservatives is that they have to join forces with the European far-right. These individuals, however, will greatly tarnish the image of American conservatives because these Europeans aren’t conservatives but nazis or fascists.
Some American bloggers like Charles seem to understand this and try to distance themselves from people [like] these European bigots. On the other hand, there are also, still, American conservatives out there who don’t seem to realize just who they’re dealing with and who have no problem talking to Vlaams Belang and its supporters.
That’s a problem. Both for American and European conservatives. Why? Because once American conservatives are branded fascist enablers it’ll be very difficult for European conservatives to work with them on any number of issues.
Frank says: