Only Citizen-Patriots Can Save the West

The war for Western civilization is here.

J.B. Shurk | October 24, 2026

In a previous essay, I wrote why “Many Western Governments Won’t Survive.”  Now I will address why many Western nations will prevail, despite the destructive policies of their governments.  Who will save the West?  Citizen-patriots.

Most Western governments have already proved themselves incapable of defending the West.  They cannot or will not defend their sovereign borders from foreign invaders.  They will not defend Christian principles and prefer to mock (and even prosecute) followers of Christ.  They will not defend their cultures, historic symbols, traditions, or beliefs.  They will not defend private property or the fruits of a person’s labor and instead use taxes and regulations to steal more and more from citizens.  They will not defend free speech or the right to self-defense.  They will not defend the West’s rich intellectual inheritance accumulated over millennia and stretching from Jerusalem and Athens to Northern Europe and the Americas.  They will not defend the West’s way of life.

Western governments have failed to protect the West, or worse, they have intentionally sabotaged the West through many decades of institutional duplicity, psychological warfare, moral decay, venality, public contempt, foreign allegiance, and self-hatred.  As Western governments have led the charge to destroy Western nations, they can hardly be expected to save us from the very carnage that they have unleashed.

Instead, the coming Western renaissance will arise with the people.  

We have seen flickers of this incendiary social revolution since the turn of the century.  

After the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks on the United States, a patriotic fervor united Americans who promised each other, “Never again.”  Many of us thought the West was finally prepared to defend its civilization from the scourge of Islamism.  

Rather than securing Western civilization from its enemies, the U.S. government gave us an expansive domestic surveillance system that eliminated Americans’ privacy, twenty years of war filled with ephemeral successes, misguided “democracy-building” missions in parts of the world hostile to our presence, and an........

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