The Western Elites’ War Against Democracy Is Now Out in the Open

"Democracy" has never been anything but a facade for the elites to use as a smokescreen for their control. They've now decided it's unnecessary. 

From The European Conservative

By Mick Hume

The case of Marine Le Pen is one of many where the courts are used as a political weapon against the rising populist revolt.

The French authorities insist that the conviction of Marine Le Pen, which disqualifies the leader of the National Rally (RN) from standing for election as president of France, is not political. No, they say, it simply reflects the neutral ‘rule of law’ and the ‘independence of the judicial system.’

Really? Strange then, that supposedly ‘independent’ judges and officials across Europe and America have all reached remarkably similar verdicts against right-wing politicians. 

It looks less like judicial independence and the old-fashioned rule of law than a globalist establishment plot to use the courts as a political weapon against the rising national populist revolt. 

The serious fraud here is not Le Pen’s party allegedly embezzling EU funds. It is the liberal elites’ fraudulent claim that they are defending democracy—by denying people the freedom to vote for whom they choose.

The one thing which all these unelected judges are truly ‘independent’ of is any democratic accountability for their actions. Their politicised version of the ‘rule of law’ is a denial of the rule of the people.

It is now undeniable that the Western establishment is hiding behind the law while waging a political war against popular democracy. The high-profile show trial of Marine Le Pen confirms that their anti-democratic crusade is now being conducted out in the open. It is time for us all to take sides, and take a stand.

You do not need to be an expert in jurisprudence or a conspiracy theorist to see the obvious pattern of political judgements against national conservative politicians across the West.

So, French judges have just convicted Le Pen and thus ruled her out of running in the 2027 presidential election, for which she was easily leading the polls.

This judgement, media supporters of the EU establishment will try to tell us, is of course entirely unconnected to the rulings of the Romanian courts, which cancelled their presidential election after right-wing nationalist Calin Georgescu won the first round, and then barred him from standing again. 

Those Romanian verdicts have been upheld by the European Court of Human Rights, which we know is also completely ‘independent’ of the wishes of any voter in any European nation.

None of this, they will insist, has anything to do with events in Germany, where court judgements that brand the populist Alternative fur Deutschland guilty of being far-right extremists have emboldened other parties to call for an outright ban on the AfD, which is now the choice of millions of German voters and vying for national leadership in the polls. 

There are many other similar examples of state and European courts trying to obstruct or outlaw national-populist parties and politicians, from Italy and Poland to Slovenia. Meanwhile the EU courts continue to target Hungary’s elected conservative government as if it was Europe’s most-wanted criminal conspiracy.

On the EU’s doorstep, the UK Labour government—led by former top state prosecutor Sir Keir Starmer—has cancelled local elections due to take place in several English counties next month, denying more than five million Brits their right to vote. Labour insists of course that this suspension of democracy is a purely technical matter, to do with their plans to reorganise regional government; we are expected to believe that it has nothing at all to do with the fact that Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform UK was expected to win in several of the counties where elections have been cancelled.

And the war on democracy doesn’t stop at Europe’s borders. Across the Atlantic, Donald Trump had to defeat various courts’ campaigns to discredit and disbar him before he could stand for re-election as U.S. president. Since he won that election and assumed office in January, President Trump’s radical reforms—from stopping USAID spending to slashing government waste—have repeatedly been balked by a collection of politically liberal district court judges. These entitled pygmies of the legal system appear to assume that they should have more authority over U.S. affairs than a leader doing what he was elected to do by more than 77 million Americans.

Call me an old cynic, but I find it hard to swallow that this is all a series of coincidences. If something looks and sounds this much like a campaign of political lawfare against populist politicians across the West, then that’s almost certainly what it is. 

Conservatives have of course always supported the rule of law as the basis of a stable and secure society. It is time to accept, however, that the ‘rule of law’ the authorities call on today no longer means what it did. It amounts instead to the rule of a politicised judiciary, acting as the agents of liberal globalist elites.

For their part, exhausted old Western political elites which now lack the authority or support to rule confidently in their own names are hiding behind the ‘rule of law’ and the grandeur of the judiciary. Fearful of the electorate and unable to combat the rising populist revolt, they instead seek to outlaw the opposition.

These judges are no longer ‘above politics.’ We are witnessing politics being brought into the courts as never before in the modern West. And in the process, big political battles are being removed from the arena of democratic debate.

What does Western democracy really mean if voters are denied their choice of candidates, or those elected are denied the chance to fulfil their promises to the electorate?

As I have argued on europeanconservative.com before, these questions come back to the origins of the concept of democracy in ancient Athens, as a marriage of the demos—the people—and kratos—power or control. The aim of the oligarchy is always to keep those two as far apart as possible, to maintain its monopoly on power. The increasing concentration of kratos in the courts is the clearest case of the anti-democratic instincts of Western oligarchs.

Outrageous assaults such as the Le Pen show trial may well backfire and lead to a further upsurge in support for national populists. People do not like being told who they are allowed to vote for. The populist revolt against the old order cannot be ended by the stroke of a judge’s pen. But we have yet to see just how far the establishment is prepared to go to contain the threat to its power.

It is time for all those who want a chance to shape the future of a free Europe to take a stand and fully embrace the populist revolt. Democracy remains our one hope of challenging the globalist elites who have taken control of Western institutions, from the courts to the universities.

The stakes are high. As Frank Furedi argues elsewhere on europeanconservative.com this week, the West is in crisis as the old world order is pulled apart. It is time to decide what we stand for and what it is that we want to defend. Reclaiming and advancing the founding principles of democracy, popular sovereignty, and free speech will be key to securing the future.

That is why, when it comes to the confrontation between state or EU courts and national populist politicians, we must say without conditions: Je Suis Marine, Donald, Viktor, or whoever is next in the legal firing line. The war for Western democracy is now one in earnest. No surrender.