Paris is burning. Again. Cars torched. Historic town halls reduced to ash. Shops looted from Marseille to Lyon. Curfews slapped on neighborhoods while politicians blame “ultraleft” agitators and criminals. Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt looked at the footage and said the quiet part out loud to Fox News Digital.
“You see what’s happening in France. That’s exactly what they want here, the DSA Democrats,” Schmitt stated. He went further. The Democrat Party, he said, is now “post-American and anti-Western civilization.”
That is not hyperbole from a campaign trail. It is the logical endpoint of open borders, massive welfare transfers, and a political class that treats disorder as a feature rather than a bug. France spent decades importing the third world while expanding the welfare state until public services cracked under the weight.
Student protests over crumbling schools and teacher shortages metastasized into nationwide riots over living costs and fuel prices near €2.20 a liter. When the bill for endless redistribution comes due, the streets burn. Schmitt is simply noting that America’s own Democratic Socialists have studied the model and like what they see.
“I think the Democrat Party at this point is sort of post-American and anti-Western civilization.” — Sen. Eric Schmitt
The DSA is not a fringe club. Its platform calls for abolishing ICE, ending national borders, granting amnesty, and eventually replacing core institutions. Co-chair Megan Romer confirmed the agenda on television: abolish the Senate, replace the presidency and Supreme Court, abolish ICE, and treat open borders as a longer-term plan.
Washington Examiner documented the exchange. New York’s Zohran Mamdani and allies treat ICE abolition as settled policy. France’s own far-left La France Insoumise, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, maintains open ties to the DSA. After Mamdani’s victory, an LFI lawmaker called the American socialists “our American counterparts.” Macron’s government has pointed at LFI for helping turn protests into challenges against the republican order.
The pattern is not coincidence.
Scripture is plain on the subject. “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”
Order is not optional. When governments abandon the duty to protect the innocent and restrain the violent, chaos fills the vacuum. France is living the consequences of treating borders as optional and public order as negotiable.
Missouri Shows the Alternative Is Still Available
Schmitt did not stop at the warning. He pointed to results in his own state under cooperation with the Trump administration. Boeing won contracts to build the Air Force’s F-47 and the Navy’s next-generation F/A-XX. That means roughly 7,000 direct jobs in the St. Louis region plus supplier work.
Schmitt called it a generational opportunity that positions the city as the defense tech capital of the United States. Those fighters also answer a real strategic need in the Pacific against China. Manufacturing jobs and national security are not abstract slogans. They are payrolls and deterrence.
Public safety followed the same pattern. Operation Show Me Justice, an ATF-led surge, produced 435 arrests and the seizure of 166 firearms in St. Louis. Authorities also took 81 kilograms of drugs and more than $1.25 million tied to illegal gun and drug trafficking. The operation wrapped in mid-October. Schmitt described the human cost of the status quo: grandparents sweeping broken glass, parents burying children.
“We don’t need to accept this,” he said. “We just don’t need to accept the idea that violent crime needs to be in the headlines every single day.” Help is on the way, he argued, with more resources coming. Families should be able to send kids to school, visit a park, or catch a Cardinals game without calculating risk.
He is also pushing the Modern Skies Act to modernize air traffic control, towers, and terminals at midsize airports like St. Louis Lambert. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has noted the funding is competitive, but the principle is clear. A region that builds next-generation fighters should not settle for a second-rate airport.
The Stakes Are Not Abstract
Control of the House remains up for grabs. Schmitt warned that a Democratic majority would obstruct immigration enforcement, permitting reform, and efforts to unwind the weaponization of government. Funding for ICE would be at risk. The contrast is not complicated. One side delivers fighter production and targeted crime reduction.
The other platform includes abolishing the agencies that enforce borders and removing the constitutional structures that limit power. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President JD Vance have made the same point in recent days. France’s open-border welfare experiment produced burning streets. Importing the same combination here is not compassion. It is invitation.
Schmitt put the election in plain terms: common sense versus crazy. He added the necessary caution that nothing is guaranteed. Republicans must fight for every vote and tell the story of tangible results rather than empty rhetoric. France already ran the experiment. The flames are the data. America still has time to choose differently.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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