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The dreams of militant multiculturalists are haunted by the ghost of a big conspiracy plotted by dark forces with plans for deportation and the repression of their political and ethnic enemies. These projections are taken for real and undeniable facts. Therefore, there is no alternative but to confront nationalist manifestations violently wherever you see them. Any other option would be irresponsible, liberally naïve, and pave the way for the ultimate catastrophe. The Nazi Machtergreifung is the ghost in these nightmares. Antifa and other anti-racist groups motivate their political action with these imaginaries.
Another ghost is haunting the dreams of the nationalists in Europe. In France, a number of books have focused on a future civil war scenario with multiculturalists starring as the Great Satan. They are the collaborators who have let in the enemies. Identification with the struggle against pan-Germanic fascism is an obvious historical reservoir for nationalist mythology in this political landscape. It is an eschatological civil war fantasy where multiculturalists will meet their fate in a Day of Reckoning. These kinds of dreams are frequently presented right after an Islamist terror attack. But as they are also taboo, they are therefore drawn up in the form of predictions of what is going to happen. In this way they assume the form of objectivity. But between the lines, and judging by their manic repetition, these sombre prophecies emanate nevertheless as a sort of political pipedream.
