Liberals Derided Mike Pompeo For His EU Speech. But The Paris Riots Prove Him Right

1. The people are turning against it, including the French rioters and the Brexiters — something Pompeo and other conservative realists instinctively realize, but our liberal establishment fails or refuses to understand.
2. The people are turning against the European Union, something U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned would happen, but establishment liberals don't get.
3. For an imperial leader whose godlike image is contingent to his popularity, Macron has shown himself effete and aloof, more worried about climate change and liberal order than about his own people getting two square meals a day.
4. The protesters have increased their demands to include a bafflingly contradictory list that includes decreasing taxes, increasing welfare spending, implementing a zero immigration policy, and an exit from both the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
5. Speaking at the German Marshall Fund, Pompeo pointed out that while underscoring multilateral institutions post-World War II was a bedrock of Western foreign policy, it has lately come at the cost of nation-states, which are often the most stable actors in world politics.
6. U.S.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently hinted at this conundrum in a ridiculed speech that should have been regarded an era-defining speech like Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain proclamation at the dawn of the Cold war.
7. For decades a lie was sold to the people of Europe that free movement, social engineering, and cheap imported labor would be compatible with an ever-growing managerial welfare state.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/14/liberals-derided-mike-pompeos-eu-speech-but-the-paris-riots-prove-him-right/