Ireland to Elites: Elect This

So it turns out Ireland had an election over the weekend. Mark Steyn has the wrap and analysis. Bottom line, those socialist terrorist bastards in Sinn Fein won a minority government. The political situation is a disastrous mess and we strongly recommend reading the Steyn piece for a rundown.

Ireland is lead by internationalist extraordinaire Leo Varadkar, a gay Hindu from Mumbai, the toast of the Davos set. Our own reading of the situation is that Irish voters, concerned with local issues like housing and, here it is again, immigration, rejected the two establishment parties Fin this and Fiona that. Instead the Irish turned to the one party that addressed those concerns, Sinn Fein. In this way the Irish are no different than the Krauts who have voted for the AfD and Italians who support Salvini and the Lega, French voters who like Le Pen and the National Front (Viva le Yellow Vests) and dare we say, Trump and Maga. The local backlash against the Internationalists has reached the land of Eire.

We talked to our Irish correspondent on the election fiasco and here is what he said*:

Once again we see a populist backlash against the political elites who have failed to solve any of the real problems in the country. Sinn Fein have made promises of change away from the center and to the left, had they run more candidates they may well have been able to form a government on their own. However as it stands they will need to form a coalition with Fin Gael who wont or Fiona Fael who do not share much in common. If Sinn Fein are able to build a coalition and try to bring their promises to bear they will eliminate the only courts capable of dealing with the provos and organized criminal gangs while simultaneously bankrupting the country again.

On the Steyn article our man on the ground remarked:

Ok I have read the article. [Steyn] is correct about a lot but wrong about something that I think was a major miscalculation by the elitist political class. The youth are not "woefully ignorant " of the troubles and the history. This comment was made and it sealed their fates in the final days of the run up to the polls. Similar to another political elite state side referring to those who were not happy with the results so far as deplorables. The youth may not know where the road leads but are uninterested in letting the same people drive them there. He isn't correct about Brexit, but he is right that people are more concerned about the housing crises and the state of the health service.

Alert readers may recall that the Fami de Stroock visited Ireland last summer. In Dublin we saw African immigrants, the Hijab, homeless encamped on the waterfront and bathrooms locked against heroin shooters. John Ford's Dublin this was not. If Dublin is just another international city like London, Paris, Toronto or New York, then what was the point of Collins, de Valera and all the rest of it? Bobby Sands starved himself to death and the IRA blew up Mountbatten for naught.

*Edited slightly for grammar.