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Gaullist California

A friend well conversant in my ongoing crusade to remind today’s centre-droit of the utility of the Gaullist experience writes in:

The Golden State once practised a very successful form of Cal-Gaullism, developing world-class infrastructure, research universities, new industries… and much of the place was solidly conservative.

Once upon a time, parts of Southern California (including Orange County) were deemed the most conservative places in America, from which Nixon, Reagan, and others sprang.

San Francisco, though still beautiful, is certainly now well past its prime; I remember that white tie and tails were still seen there regularly as late as the ’80s.

The Polish church in Los Angeles was built to serve the large number of Polish exile families (with fathers who were aerospace engineers trained in the RAF like mine) who came from the UK and Canada to work in what was then the world centre of the aerospace and defence industry — “the Gunbelt in the Sunbelt”.

Published at 11:10 am on Tuesday 28 February 2023. Categories: Errant Thoughts Politics Tags: , , .
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The “centre-droit”?
A “movement” which has ended with Macron in Paris, that dwarfish character in London and, a bit earlier, Merkel in Berlin.

A political idea which has comprehensively failed (some might add, designedly, which was certainly the case with Merkel) and which (as, again, with Merkel) is always followed in office by the hardline Left. Luckily (?) that Left is now so unbalanced (e.g. every member of Schulz’s coalition) that it cannot but fail, but in failing and falling it will inevitably bring down a lot of ruin upon the nations which have been and will soon be willingly enslaved by it.

Basta. Outside the hard Right there is no salvation.

— BT van Nostrand 3 Mar 2023 2:35 pm

Come now, Mr Van Nostrand!

I happen to know your politics and they are smack-dab in the middle of the broad centre. (Just like in Hungary and Italy and soon in Spain [as of old?].)

— Andrew Cusack 8 Mar 2023 12:53 pm

My old friend Van Nostrand will be amused by your imaginative re-invention of what makes up the broad centre of European politics.

He’s already talked of retiring to Hungary, but a Spanish Orban, particularly were he to appear on the scene unexpectedly and in military uniform (as of old), would have him on the first available flight to Madrid.

— L G Clark 8 Mar 2023 4:27 pm
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