It Can’t Happen Here. That was the title of a fiercely partisan novel by socialist writer Sinclair Lewis which I wolfed down as a teenager. That was a few years back, but the story has stayed with me: the coming of dictatorship in a once-free, English-speaking country, masked by happy slogans and “social justice” mandates.

That novel comes to my mind as I read, through tears, about what’s happening to our mother country, from which we inherited all our institutions of liberty.

Christian evangelist Jamie Bambrick lays it out in heartbreaking detail. The government of the United Kingdom, come to power through an election that doesn’t reflect popular opinion, is now waging a war against the majority population, cynically using immigrants from hostile Muslim cultures to terrorize native Britons — especially the beaten-down, forgotten working class. Citizens are going to jail for months and years for silently watching protests, or daring to post on social media about violent migrant crime.

Worse Than Communist China

In all sobriety and seriousness: The British government is now more toxic than the Communist one in China, which at least is only conducting genocidal replacement policies against small regional minorities such as the Uyghurs. Even the butchers in Beijing wouldn’t dream of waging war against the majority. As Bambrick writes:

Britain has had a left-wing Labor government in power for just over a month now, and those in power have leveraged this moment to take greater leaps towards totalitarianism than anyone would have thought possible in such a short space of time. Prime Minister Kier Starmer, a radical leftist, condemned [protests against immigrant violent crime] as “far-right thuggery” and promised protection to the “Muslim community.” Any notions of legitimate concerns about immigration or the protection of the white working classes from gangs of criminals have been ignored. …

One video shows a policeman politely asking Muslim gangs to leave their weapons in a nearby mosque. Would it be the same on the other side? (Not that we even see such weapons being carried on the other side of these protests.) We see large gangs of Middle Eastern men carrying machetes, smashing up cars, and beating lone white people with zero police presence. Labor MP Jess Philips even tweeted a defense of such armed Muslim gangs in her constituency of Birmingham Yardley.

And if we look at prosecutions, well we have on one side a man jailed for 26 months for “gesticulating and shouting at [police officers]” and a 55-year-old woman was arrested for posting “incorrect information” on social media. Meanwhile the government is releasing criminals from jail, including those who killed a young white boy with machetes, who were released after just six months. Other cases include Hamoud Al Soaimi, who raped a child under the age of thirteen, and was given a two-year suspended sentence, and two Muslim men who violently assaulted police in Manchester Airport just a few weeks ago who have yet to be charged.

The British police are going further, threatening to arrest people for retweeting things they don’t like, saying that they have officers dedicated to scouring social media for such posts. Meanwhile only 6% of burglaries are solved in the country.

Populist activist Tommy Robinson, demonized and repeatedly imprisoned for his views, remains undaunted:

Judge sentencing a social media poster this week: “You went on to say; you do not want your money to go to immigrants, that r*pe our kids and get priority….this offense is so serious, an immediate custodial sentence is unavoidable..

He was jailed for 20 months. https://t.co/gl0oNvvjF2

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) August 13, 2024

Relax, Everything Is Fine

But that kind of thing can’t happen over here in America, can it? Not when the party leading in the polls is captained by sane, moderate technocrats like the ultracompetent, principled Kamala Harris and patriotic, law-and-order Iraq War combat veteran Tim Walz. Not when our media are driven by integrity and professionalism to question those candidates closely about their track records and proposals — while scrupulously offering equal time to their Republican opponents, whom they treat with respect and report on evenhandedly. It’s not as if we had journalists calling on the White House to censor all opposition broadcasts, or blocs of nations like the European Union threatening American media dissidents such as Elon Musk.

Am I right? Go on back to sleep, nothing to worry about over here.

Why I Can’t Sleep But Want To

I’m a childless dog daddy pushing 60, so I really shouldn’t care.

But I do. Good friends of mine do have children, who will have to face the future towards which our country is stumbling, half-blind and deaf, in less than three months’ time. I’ve written a dozen books, which I hope people will have the freedom to read in future decades. There are beautiful old churches I’ve tender memories of, which I’d rather not see shuttered, then turned into mosques or gay Satanist gyms like this one in Manhattan run by Biden’s monkeypox tsar.

I used to have to make this stuff up. Now I’m just reporting the news.

We’re in Paris. It’s May 1940

I shall not end up in prison, because I won’t go peacefully, so that’s not such a worry. But going out like Scarface in a newly erected police state isn’t how I used to picture my last few moments down here in this vale of tears.

The fate of this wonderful country which let my family go from poverty to the Ivy League in one generation haunts me, from the moment I reluctantly wake up till I somehow get to sleep. I see people going about their business as if everything were still normal, as if we weren’t living in France, May 1940, with the Wehrmacht fueling its panzers. And I want to grab them and shake them. I’d tell them all, if I could, to read about what happened to the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Armenians in Turkey, the eyeglass owners in Cambodia in the 1970s.

It DID Happen Here

But history is bunk, as Henry Ford used to say. Why don’t we just try Memory? Remember the fake “antiracist” riots of 2020, where thugs and radicals pillaged entire cities — cheered on by the current vice president of the U.S. and authorized by her own current running mate? Remember how Kamala Harris praised the riots and said they should continue, and raised bail money for violent thugs and thieves? Remember how Tim Walz stood down the National Guard in Minnesota, and ordered police to let the rioters overrun and burn their precinct? How his wife praised the smell of her city burning, like that lunatic soldier in Apocalypse Now who had fallen in love with napalm?

🚨Flashback: Three Minneapolis police officers testify to the Minnesota Senate that Governor Tim Walz gave the order to let rioters burn the MPD Third Precinct.

“I heard the Governor say ‘Give it up'”
– MPD Sergeant Anna Hedberg pic.twitter.com/6CQQxzXay1

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) August 12, 2024

“Shut up,” our media explain, “Isn’t J.D. Vance … weird?” Then they use AI-doctored images of “enthusiastic crowds” at Harris rallies, on which they report on in lieu of even trying to force her to answer a single question.

Remember … when your churches and schools were closed with the enthusiastic approval of your pastors, while abortion clinics and strip clubs still did a thriving business? When Trump’s campaign stops were “superspreader events” that black men like Herman Cain deserved to die for attending? But riots were “mostly peaceful” and promoted “public health” because of “racism” or something? Remember vaccine passports, and soldiers being dishonorably discharged for refusing to take the jab?

Remember the January 6 election integrity protestors, still going to prison (as Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro have):

DC Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui has signed more J6 arrest warrants than any other judge.

Here he is lecturing a nonviolent grandmother convicted of 4 misdemeanors.

He then authorized the DOJ to steal $103,000 she raised from private citizens.

If only some entity had… https://t.co/wuRxBI1abh

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 13, 2024

That’s what we’re voting against in November. That’s where we must focus our prayer and fasting and every particle of energy in these last three months, which might well be our last American moments, before something new and hideous, inspired and driven by demons, rises all around us like a new Berlin Wall.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 10 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.