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“Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots
Guillaume Faye, France s prophet of civil war by Blake Smith Print this article
For a moment a few years ago, it seemed that an international movement of racists was emerging to threaten liberalism, as white nationalists in the United States allied with “Identitarians” in Europe. The far-right French writer Guillaume Faye, who died last year, was one of the main figures in this drama, and his ideas were the subject of worried analyses in venues of mainstream American opinion. After the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, commentators such as Thomas Chatterton Williams cited the influence of Faye on white supremacists in the U.S., arguing that the attendees “rhetoric had been imported from France, like some dusty wine.”