The key to this is Belien’s, and the Eurofascists’, associated crusade against “secular humanism.” We have heard this kind of rhetoric before, in a place far different from Brussels and from people who have probably never heard of VB but who are nevertheless its allies and soul-mates. In terms of overall global cultural trends, these crypto-fascists forces are of a piece with the Young Earth Creationists on the Texas school board and the antiscience movement in general. It is about rolling back the Enlightenment and all the gains of the last 2 centuries, and is therefore profoundly inimical to American principle.

The picture is beginning to come together.