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The fundamental question at the heart of the speech — which is quite incomprehensible to the vast array of braying commentators who are busy lauding mass immigration and the destruction of Europe’s “oppressive, white male patrimony” — is “whether the West has the will to survive.”

Already The Guardian, the ultra-liberal failing British newspaper read by the latte-sipping cognoscenti who run the media and academia in the U.K., has called that question, and the whole thrust of the speech, “dark nativism.” They see the malignant hand of Steve Bannon and his evil mini-me, Stephen Miller, as Trump speaks of Poland as a nation “devoted to God,” and when a nation knows “who you are, you come to understand what to do and how to live.”

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That statement would, and should, make perfect sense to the average American. The fact that liberal secularists not only cannot understand it, but have to put “civilization” in parentheses, tells us that Trump’s question is not rhetorical.

Pope Francis described contemporary Europe as “elderly and haggard,” a “grandmother, no longer fertile and vibrant.” Pope Benedict, writing about the monastic movements made to the creation of European culture, said the period of the fifth and sixth centuries was one of a “tremendous crisis of values, caused by the invasion of new people and the decadence of customs.”

The Trump doctrine of European revival expounded in Warsaw, with its profoundly Catholic underpinnings, provides a refreshing and bracing philosophical elixir; it brings life to a time in which values are in crisis. As the president said, our civilization depends on the “bonds of history, culture and memory” — John Paul couldn’t have said it better.

Fr. Benedict Kiely is a Catholic priest and founder of Nasarean.org, which is helping the persecuted Christians of the Middle East.  [lz_pagination]