The plot of the book is the same as today’s stories: Does the West have the will to repel Third-World migration? Though the novel-more a fable than anything else-is largely unknown to the general population, for the “demographics is destiny” crowd it approximates the same place that Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged does for libertarians. Richard Spencer’s Radix declared it “ highly original” and decreed that Raspail’s “narrative, howsoever exaggerated for effect, was a distillation and condensation of observable reality.” Steve Bannon has repeatedly made reference to the text, using it as a shorthand for the worst-case-scenarios of immigration. In 1973, French author Jean Raspail published Le Camp des Saints, translated into English as The Camp of the Saints. Yet for members of the alt-right, these aren’t headlines so much as a prophecy made 45 years ago. The headlines read largely the same: CNBC: “ Migrant ‘caravan’ gathers on US-Mexico border” The Washington Post: “ Migrant ‘caravan’ gathers on US-Mexico border for final push” Washington Examiner: “ First of the Mexican caravan migrants arrive at the US border.” Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Octoin Gainesville, Florida. White nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term ‘alt-right,’ speaks during a press conference at the Curtis M.
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