Recently, Christian musician Sean Feucht had his numerous permits to hold events on public property across Canada canceled and revoked by various elements of the Canadian government, due to the fact that he is an open populist and has publicly expressed his personal right-wing values and ideology.
Unfortunately, the open persecution that Feucht has been forced to endure during his Canadian tour is not at all extraordinary or abnormal.
Rather, since 2016, populist ideology has become openly oppressed and persecuted throughout the international political system.
In fact, virtually every nation that has been dominated by left-wing regimes and politics over the course of the past decade has vividly oppressed populist ideology and right-wing values within its society.
First, over the course of the past decade France’s left-wing news media and political edifices have steadily transformed French society into a political ecosystem wherein it is not merely tolerable, but justified, to persecute and abuse the human rights of any person who is a willing populist.
For instance, French President Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly claimed that populism is “spreading across Europe like a disease” and that “Europeans should fight [populists] vigorously” instead of criticising the actions of pro-European governments like his.
Furthermore, Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally Group in France’s National Assembly, was recently convicted and unjustly punished for “embezzlement,” specifically because she is an unabashed populist and a constant advocate for the needs of the French people.
In fact, the judge who presided over Marine Le Pen’s case, Bénédicte de Perthuis, explicitly stated that Le Pen’s extreme sentence is a direct result of her “serious and lasting attack on the rules of democratic life in Europe … especially in France,” and the severe risk to public order that Le Pen and her politics represent.
Moreover, in Germany, populist ideology has been forcibly barred from public discourse and right-wing values have been excised from German politics for over a decade.
For example, German politicians have long hidden behind the German nation’s infamous Brandmauer, the “firewall” that has been erected against any and all right-wing politics in Germany since the end of World War II, and refused to work together with any right-wing political parties or values in any capacity, in an overt effort to prevent any resurgence of right-wing politics or ideology in Germany.
In fact, in Germany, it is currently almost impossible to purchase books by even world-renowned conservative authors, such as Douglas Murray, due to the fact that they have been branded as “right-wing” ideologues and shamefully “blacklisted in Berlin.”
Finally, since the advent of the Liberal government in 2015, all populism and right-wing ideology have become openly oppressed and persecuted within Canada itself.
For example, for almost ten years, populist political actors such as Sean Feucht and Tamara Lich have been consistently persecuted for their beliefs and precluded from numerous fundamental human rights, such as the “right to freedom of expression” and the “right to religious liberty.”
Furthermore, conservative media outlets are routinely denied access to politicians in Canada, and right-wing reporters, as well as Canadian citizens, are routinely ignored and often rudely dismissed by Canada’s left-wing politicians and political actors.
In addition, Canada’s former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau frequently misrepresented populists as some species of crypto-nazi and attempted to associate all right-wing ideology with the accusations of bigotry and fascism that have been heaped upon American President Donald Trump.
In truth, Trudeau’s crusade to outlaw any iteration of populist ideology and right-wing values in Canada was so all-consuming that in 2022 it compelled him to despotically enact Canada’s Emergencies Act and explicitly violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms itself in an effort to oppress the Freedom Convoy and its bevy of populist supporters during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In fact, throughout the Liberal era, Canadian society has become violently polarized and “right-wing extremism” has become increasingly prevalent, due to the fact that any Canadians who publicly espouse conservative values, politics, and ideologies, such as populism, have long been denied earnest access to the overwhelming majority of all legitimate avenues for political expression. As a result, vast swathes of Canadian society have been forced to seek out political expression outside mainstream society and its channels.
Unfortunately, despite the fact that the left-wing pundits and politicians who have dominated Western nations throughout the modern era have attempted to misconstrue themselves as champions of diversity and pluralism, it is evident that their commitment to diversity is only skin deep and that the open persecution that Sean Feucht has been forced to endure during his time in Canada is not at all an abnormal experience for any modern conservative or populist.
Rather, since 2016, populist ideology and politics have been openly oppressed and persecuted throughout the international political system and in many of the European nations that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly seeks to emulate.
In fact, virtually every nation that has been dominated by left-wing regimes and politics over the course of the past decade has enthusiastically misconstrued populist ideology as inherently dangerous to any democracy and thereby overtly oppressed the overwhelming majority of all populist ideology and values within its society.
In truth, although modern left-wing pundits and politicians have persistently invoked the “ghoul of populism” in an effort to frighten and shame people away from the right wing of the political spectrum, it is clear that populism is nigh-indistinguishable from democracy, and is, at best, merely the moniker that left-wing politicians and pundits attach to any unwanted political outcomes and conservative results in an effort to ignore the real needs of the state and the bedrock of any democracy: its people.
More importantly, if Canada’s Liberal government continues to preclude populism and conservative ideology in Canada from accessing the legitimate channels for political expression, then it is readily apparent that the violent political polarization and democratic backsliding that currently menace Canadian society will inevitably spill over into overt anarchy and violence, as populists and conservatives throughout Canada are forced to secure themselves against a nation increasingly indistinguishable from the State of Nature.
