In the spirit of apocalyptic optimism, political pundits are prophesying not so much doom rather a great deal of civic excitement for this new year we are now embarking on.
They have a point. The American election looks likely to shake America, and so also the West, to its core. The more imaginative commentators are talking in terms of a possible civil war, and admittedly neither side is likely to accept the victory of the other, at least at the level of public allegiance.
Over here, Europe is becoming unglued by a failed multiculturalism. The calls for ethnic cleansing of the Jews by the hundreds of thousands of (mainly) Muslims and their allies from the Left who took to the streets after the murder of Israelis on 7 October 2023 bodes ill.
