[visualops]

whose elites, like many of England's Cavaliers and Charles I's French wife before them, are most concerned with winning over continental opinion and mimicking the European way of life.

That's fairly accurate.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

If I hear this over-used analogy one more time I'm going to request a beheading, for whoever used it in the first place. I'm almost as sick of this conventional wisdom as I was of the repeated invocation of "gravitas" during the 2000 presidential race.