{"id":2703541,"date":"2026-11-10T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-europeanizing-of-america\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:21:45","slug":"the-europeanizing-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-europeanizing-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Europeanizing of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-europeanizing-of-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2703541&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After WWII,leaders like Truman,Eisenhower and John foster Dulles built a global order,with Dulles preferring ideological influence to nuclear force. reflecting on midterms, the author urges Trump\u2019s supporters to accept defeat with dignity, warning against vindictive politics and recalling Nixon\u2019s restraint in 1960. He criticizes covert CIA actions, media portrayals of Israel, and Trump\u2019s poor judgments that deepened national divisions. He fears democracy slipping into mob rule and laments america\u2019s moral decline-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/constitutional-crisis-or-political-war\/\" title=\"Constitutional Crisis or Political War\">open borders<\/a>, cultural upheaval, corrupt elites, needless wars-and warns mass migration could make the U.S. a diminished, Europe-like polity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-blog-post__content s-wysiwyg s-wysiwyg--blog\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:30px;\" id=\"elevenlabs-audionative-widget\" data-height=\"90\" data-width=\"100%\" data-frameborder=\"no\" data-scrolling=\"no\" data-publicuserid=\"cb0d9922301244fcc1aeafd0610a8e90a36a320754121ee126557a7416405662\" data-playerurl=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/player\/index.html\" >Loading the <a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/text-to-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elevenlabs Text to Speech<\/a> AudioNative Player&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/player\/audioNativeHelper.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">The problem a victorious United States faced back when I arrived as a schoolboy was how to create a functioning global system out of the wreckage of two world wars. Luckily, men like Truman, Eisenhower, and John Dulles ran the show. The last of these was convinced that an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-ways-america-routinely-surrenders-to-china\/\" title=\"4 Ways America Routinely Surrenders To China\">ideological offensive<\/a> against America\u2019s adversaries was more important than a nuclear one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am writing this with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-november-elections-a-referendum-on-biden\/\" title=\"Trump Says November Elections a \u2018Referendum\u2019 on Biden\">midterm election results<\/a> in mind, and recalling a not very convincing euphemism used by Emperor Hirohito in 1945 when he announced, \u201cThe war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan\u2019s advantage.\u201d The Trump group should keep this in mind and try to mirror the emperor\u2019s dignity in defeat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dignity has been rather absent of late, and what saddened me after the Republican drubbing reminded me of Europe instead of America. Over on the old continent, the winners\u2019 first action is to punish the losers. On this side of the ocean, things in the past played out differently. I remember well the dignity of Richard Nixon after losing to JFK in 1960, and declining to publicly challenge the results in Illinois and Texas for the good of the process and of the nation. Watching those Democrats and their buddies in the media brag how they\u2019re going to put the screws on the Trumpists reminded me of my birthplace, when the newly elected socialist firebrand Andreas Papandreou named names\u2014including that of my father\u2014that his party was going to go after. (They failed.)<\/p>\n<p>                         <!-- \/22404337467,3946880\/theamericanconservative-Leaderboard-Top -->                         <\/p>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1742316429780-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 50px; max-width: 100%; '>                         <\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But back to Eisenhower and Dulles, and the latter\u2019s plans to win hearts and minds rather than nuke them. He saw the Cold War as a potential source of spiritual and social revival. In other words, a chance to make America a place others would wish to emulate, not attack. Back then, both Republicans and Democrats shared a basic idea on how America should behave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mind you, Dulles\u2019s brother Allen, head of the CIA, was doing things that diverged from the vision of his older sibling. Mysterious coups and assassinations in various small countries south of our border went unmentioned in polite society, and it cost me a wonderful evening with the beautiful Bella Arbenz in Paris, when just as we were about to retire I said how glad I was to hear that a certain strongman in Guatemala had been overthrown. (It was her father, and the CIA was responsible, and I was thrown out of her flat rather rudely.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never mind. David Ellison\u2019s Paramount, Warner and CBS, plus CNN and affiliates will now go all out to maintain the image of Israel as a victim of Iran and of the Palestinians. Bari Weiss, who in Second World War parlance would be described as a fifth columnist, will make sure Israel appears the victim on newscasts. It is now up to Trump to keep America from falling further into the trap he has put us in with his real estate sharks. Just think. His second term has been destroyed by his flawed judgement of people and nations. Suckered into attacking Iran by the Israelis and his slumlord buddies, he could have had it all: a closed southern border, the end of woke, cheap gas, plus personal popularity. Now, the gulf between deeply divided political and moral camps is as wide as it has ever been. What we should be aware of is that democracy can turn into mob rule by an ignorant, bullying majority, just as monarchy can degenerate into tyranny. <\/p>\n<section class=\"c-subscribe-email\" >\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__wrap\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__head\">\n<h4 class=\"c-subscribe-email__heading\">Subscribe Today<\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"c-subscribe-email__subheading\">Get daily emails in your inbox<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__form-wrap\">      <!-- Begin Mailchimp Signup Form -->      <\/p>\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup\">\n<form id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" action=\"https:\/\/theamericanconservative.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=442e644c01f8e54e26e4ff3f8&#038;id=f7b67cac40\" method=\"post\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" novalidate target=\"_blank\">\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup_scroll\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__fields\">              <label for=\"mce-EMAIL\" class=\"u-screenreader-text\">Email Address:<\/label>              <input id=\"mce-EMAIL\" class=\"c-subscribe-email__field\" name=\"EMAIL\" type=\"email\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"Your Email\" \/>              <input id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"c-subscribe-email__submit o-button o-button--red-500 o-button--solid\" name=\"subscribe\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>            <\/div>\n<div id=\"mce-responses\" class=\"clear\">\n<div id=\"mce-error-response\" class=\"response\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mce-success-response\" class=\"response\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>              <!-- real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups-->            <\/p>\n<div class=\"u-screenreader-text\" aria-hidden=\"true\">              <input tabindex=\"-1\" name=\"b_442e644c01f8e54e26e4ff3f8_f7b67cac40\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" \/>            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      <!--End mc_embed_signup-->          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Needless to say, America today is not the same lady I first met back in 1948. She seems to have been dragged down from her ethical moorings, with open borders, men turning into women, people in the White House enriching themselves, bombing far away countries for no reason\u2014I could go on. The evening before the election I watched a left-wing show on TV and it could have been a replica of one in 1943, with Jewish Americans discussing Hitler and what a horror Germany had become. They were talking about Trump and the US of A today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See what I mean about going back to nicer, gentler people and political climates? I suppose the far more nonwhite country of today can never go back to the one that greeted me back then, but promoting Third World mass migration is not the answer to our diminishment. Those promoting such matters do not feel any connection to the country\u2019s traditional identity but fantasize instead about some kind of global unity nonsense. If they ever succeed, as they well might, all they will have achieved is an irrelevant America.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what\u2019s the point of all this? Easy. Instead of Europe becoming more and more like America, we\u2019re becoming more and more like the old continent. A pity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer reflects on how the U.S. built a workable global order after two world wars, praising Truman, Eisenhower, and John Foster Dulles. Dulles argued for winning adversaries\u2019 hearts and minds rather than pursuing nuclear escalation, viewing the Cold War as a chance to uplift American ideals so others would want to imitate them. He uses Hirohito\u2019s cautious 1945 remark as a reminder to maintain dignity, even in defeat, and suggests the Trump era should strive for a similar composure.<\/p>\n<p>He laments a decline in dignity after the GOP\u2019s losses, noting that in Europe victors often punish the losers, whereas the U.S. once embraced a more dignified handling of defeat-citing Nixon\u2019s graceful concession in 1960 as an example. The piece recalls memories of political intimidation in other countries (such as Greece) and even a personal anecdote in Paris involving the CIA\u2019s role in Latin American coups, illustrating a tension between idealized U.S. ideals and covert realpolitik.<\/p>\n<p>The article argues that Dulles wanted America to win \u201chearts and minds\u201d rather than blow up enemies, and that the Cold War could have sparked spiritual and social renewal if conducted with virtue. It notes that Allen Dulles\u2019s CIA actions sometimes diverged from that vision, pointing to covert interventions abroad. The author fears media manipulation that frames Israel as a perpetual victim and worries Trump\u2019s missteps have trapped the country, possibly undermining-rather than preserving-border control, anti-woke policies, affordable energy, and domestic support.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, the writer warns that democracy can degenerate into mob rule and that even monarchy can slide into tyranny if moral norms erode. He laments how America has changed since the late 1940s-with open borders, social changes, self-enrichment in government, and questionable foreign interventions-and argues that mass migration from the Global South misaligns with the country\u2019s traditional identity. The overarching point is that rather than Europe becoming more like America, the United States seems to be drifting toward Europe\u2019s older, less favorable pattern, which the author regards as unfortunate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4471,"featured_media":2703542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tac.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2230850373-scaled-e1756871189552.jpg?auto=compress&#038;crop=faces%2Centropy&#038;fit=crop&#038;fm=jpg&#038;h=630&#038;ixlib=php-3.3.1&#038;q=80&#038;w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[87683,75699,87682,42307,5894],"class_list":["post-2703541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-american-culture-2","tag-cultural-change","tag-europeanization","tag-globalization","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tac.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2230850373-scaled-e1756871189552.jpg?auto=compress&#038;crop=faces%2Centropy&#038;fit=crop&#038;fm=jpg&#038;h=630&#038;ixlib=php-3.3.1&#038;q=80&#038;w=1200","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703550,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703541\/revisions\/2703550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}