![]() ![]() It is that The Camp of the Saints is spectacularly wrong at nearly every level. ![]() But instead of slaughtering them all as Raspail would have wanted, France welcomes them with open arms and gets obliterated by the sheer demographic onslaught.īut the book's problem is not only that it sets up a denouement so cartoonish that even Mad Max writers would cringe. It creates a scenario in which a flotilla of a million leprous, lecherous Indian's arrives at the French Rivera seeking refuge. The book's central purpose is to show how liberalism has weakened France's resolve to defend its racial/cultural purity, I note in my column at The Week. A perennial cult classic among white supremacist groups, this book, in recent months has been hailed as "prescient" by conservative outfits such as American Conservative and The Federalist. ![]() A case in point is the revival of interest in a sick dystopia called the Camp of Saints penned by a French writer Jean Raspail in 1975. One such thing is the cover he is providing for even respectable conservatives to air racist ideas. There are many things to mourn about the rise of Donald Trump. From Wikipedia: 'The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. Author Jean Raspail, a conservative Catholic, sees the problem as a loss of stable values and order. Army (Historical Image Archive) via / CC BY-NC-ND The Camp of the Saints is about the decadence of the West. ![]()
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