It probably won’t happen during the lifetime of us old codgers who are nearing the end, but we are definitely witnessing the beginnings of it. History usually moves slowly. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it didn’t fall in a day. The barbarians—Goths, Visigoths, Lombards, Huns, Franks, Democrats, etc.—started coming in around the 3rd century, and some maybe even sooner. Rome could have stopped them, of course; nothing is truly historically “inevitable,” but Rome didn’t stop them, and the last Roman emperor was ejected in 476 A.D. The barbarians had definitely arrived by then.

We popularly call the next few centuries of European history the “Dark Ages.” Historians of the period don’t especially like that term, but it’s stuck. We consider “classical” Greece and Rome high periods in European history. But the descent after Rome into a “darker” period under uncivilized barbarians and tyrannical governments was not one of Europe’s finest. But again, it didn’t arrive overnight, and Europe didn’t get out of it overnight, either. Several centuries elapsed before the continent began to truly prosper, expand, and show its might. It takes a while to clear away a jungle; and the jungle always seems to want to grow back. And it will, especially if people of barbarian mentality are running the show. And that appears to be increasingly the case in Western Civilization today.

Here is a recent Breitbart headline that caught my attention: “British Govt. Plan to Scrap Jury Trials Clears First Hurdle; Starmer Stooge Spins Dismantling of Rights as ‘Modernization.’” So, eliminating one of Western Civilization’s most basic rights, one of its greatest gifts to........

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