The Lost Position?

What happens now in Minnesota will determine the success or failure of the Trump administration

We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Customs and Border Patrol agent whose bones were found in front of the Homes 2 Suites Hotel, who, during the eruption of Minneapolis, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that cannot be taken from a man.

Those were not the famous words of Oswald Spengler at the close of his short book, Man and Technics, published in 1931.

Spengler was talking, of course, about the Roman soldier who refused to abandon his watch at Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted, simply because no-one gave the order to.

Instead, he was engulfed by the pyroclastic flow, his body carbonised and turned to stone under immense heat and pressure; buried beneath ash and dirt; preserved until its discovery nearly 2,000 years later.

A thing of wonder.

For Spengler, the soldier’s display of “race”—of breeding coupled with training, discipline and will—was an example for the ages, and for our age, as Western civilization teetered on the brink.

In such a time, in the face of such odds, Spengler wrote, “Optimism is cowardice.” We must stand and do our duty, even if the best we can hope for is annihilation.

Thankfully, that brave federal agent who defended the Homes 2 Suites Hotel in Minneapolis last weekend lived to fight another day.

Battered and bloodied, yes, but unbowed; alive. He held firm in the jaws of a leftist mob bent on destruction—they had been told the hotel was full of federal agents—and he provided a powerful example, one that might even have brought the traces of a smile to the notoriously dour visage of Spengler himself.

I don’t mean to be grandiloquent for the sake of it. Symbols matter. They really do.

Here we saw symbolised what exactly? Defiance, for one thing; order and chaos–another; but also, most importantly, the greater drama playing out across America today, as Donald Trump attempts, against the heaviest of odds, to remove millions of illegal aliens from the country.

The stakes of the battle for America have never been clearer than in the fight taking place right now in Minneapolis. The forces of law and order, of national sovereignty and love of one’s own people—the natural patriotic drives that motivate tens of millions of Americans still—face a dedicated and determined threat from the radical left.