Where Is Another Charles Martel?

I fear he would be arrested for hate speech. Like the vandals in Rome, the Muslim invaders did not descend on a healthy France. They reached a city weakened by generations of political betrayal, corruption, internal conflict, and the erosion of rule of law. France, too, lacks the leadership and cohesion to defend them. Decadence was more than luxury; it was the complacency of elites who treated inherited power as permanent while the foundations crumbled beneath them. The sack of Rome was the brutal culmination of that decay: an enemy from without exploiting the ruin already wrought within.

The barbarians walked through gates that had already been left open by men too comfortable to guard them. Generations of corruption, cowardice, and contempt for the law