Watch this video. The guy standing with the kids as they blockade and torch the school? That's the mayor. This is Saint-Denis, just north of Paris, the town where nearly every king of France is buried. And that is its mayor, Bally Bagayoko, born to Malian parents, elected under La France Insoumise, who back in May refused to even hang the President's portrait in his own town hall. He filmed this himself. He wants you to see it. So let's take him up on it. The instinct on the right is to say he is not really French. We need to set aside that instinct and view this in far more depth. The more useful fact is that he holds a French office, won in a legal election, administered by the French state. The apparatus everyone assumes belongs to the native elite has been entered, occupied, and turned. A man inside the machine is now using the machine against the thing the machine exists to protect. Watch him closely, because this tweet is a careful calculation. The schools are burning. Close to 2,000 people have been arrested, most of them minors. Headteachers have been injured in their dozens. And a sitting mayor looks at all of it and decides his future runs with the arsonists and not with the prefecture. He is not confused. He has read the demographic map of his own city and concluded that standing with the mob is the winning move. And he is probably correct in the short term at least. This is the part that a lot of people keep on getting wrong. Everyone believes the native elite, the Parisian class in France and the Laurentian class here, holds total and unchallengeable power over these moments. It does not. What Saint-Denis shows is penetration. The apparatus still stands, the titles are still theirs, but it no longer answers only to the men who built it. Pieces of it have quietly changed owners, and the new owners have their own program. Canada saw a quieter version of the same thing in the summer of 2024. Fifty-two Liberal staffers, most of them Arab and Muslim, signed a letter to the party leader refusing to work the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun byelection in Montreal. They gave as their reason the Trudeau government's handling of Israel's war in Gaza, its treatment of Palestinians, and its refusal to recognize a Palestinian state. You need to understand what actually happened. Political staffers are not elected. They hold their jobs on exactly one condition, that they carry out the agenda of the people who are elected and never substitute their own. That is the whole theory of the position. Here instead was a bloc of them using their place inside the ministry to drag Canadian foreign policy toward a foreign cause, withholding their labour until the elected government moved. That is foreign aligned unelected staff attempting to push their own foreign agenda. This was a calculated move. This is what hollowing out looks like. Nobody did it to the native elite. It did it to itself. They spent 60 years recruiting diversity into the machinery of the state and assured itself that the new staff would inherit the old loyalties. They did not. They kept their own, and the day those loyalties pointed away from the party line, they acted on them. The belief that the native elite still holds total control over its own apparatus is not merely wrong. The apparatus has been changing hands quietly for a generation, and Saint-Denis and Montreal are the same event at different stages of the same disease. Authority is not a possession you inherit and keep. It is a loyalty system that must be actively maintained, you have to go on earning it, and the day you stop earning it, someone already inside your own house will begin to spend it against you. We must remigrate all these 5th column foriegners back to their homes.