Far-left Scrooges Claim “Far-right” Christians “Stole,” “Weaponized” Christmas

For those who think Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus Christ, Politico Europe has news for you: They think wrong.

In fact, the website claims “the far right stole Christmas” and “seasonal traditions and good cheer are being repurposed to serve political ends.”

From whom the “far right” stole Christmas isn’t clear, although far-left Politico Europe warns that the very real War on Christmas is a figment of the far-right’s febrile nightmares. Thus did far-left John Pavlovitz, a pro-homosexual apostate Catholic, claim that Christians have “weaponized” Christmas.

Correction: The far-left has weaponized Christ Himself, notably by falsely claiming he was an “undocumented immigrant” who would be a target for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They also claim that He wouldn’t abide those who run hither and thither with Merry Christmas on their lips. Indeed, He likely thinks those cult members, as Pavlovitz called them, should be boiled in their own pudding.

Bad Meloni

Just in time to poke Christians everywhere in the eye, Politico Europe breathlessly claimed that “Christmas is becoming a new front line in Europe’s culture wars.”

Indeed, it continued, “far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left.”

Such an idea is a “trope” that “echoes a familiar refrain across the Atlantic that was first propagated by Fox News, where hosts have inveighed against a purported ‘War on Christmas’ for years.” 

“Far-right parties” are aping the trope.

The piece in question expounds at length about only one “far-right” party, the Brothers of Italy, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. She, apparently, is the mastermind of the far-right’s theft of Christmas, at least in Italy.

“Meloni has made the defense of Christmas traditions central to her political identity. She has repeatedly framed the holiday as part of the nation’s endangered heritage, railing against what she calls ‘ideological’ attempts to dilute it,” the website reported:

“How can my culture offend you?” Meloni has asked in the past, defending nativity scenes in public spaces. She has argued that children should learn the values of the Nativity — rather than just associating Christmas with food and presents — and rejected the idea that long-standing traditions should be altered. This year, Meloni said she was abstaining from alcohol until Christmas, portraying herself as a practitioner of spirituality and tradition. 

Meloni isn’t alone. “France’s National Rally and Spain’s Vox have similarly opposed secularist or ‘woke’ efforts to replace religious imagery with neutral seasonal language, and advocated for nativity scenes in town halls.” Worse still, “in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has warned that Christmas markets are losing their ‘German character,’ amplifying disinformation about Muslim traditions edging out Christian ones.”

Of course, the website doesn’t defend its claim that AfD is spreading “disinformation,” and in any event turns back to the maleficent Meloni. Her party annually “hosts a Christmas-themed political festival — complete with Santa, ice-skating, and a towering Christmas tree lit in the colors of the Italian tricolor.”

Christmastide Evil isn’t just afoot. It’s up and running.

The festival is now at “the prestigious Castel Sant’Angelo,” where it actually invites “families, tourists and the politically curious.” The website never explains why the party shouldn’t use the “prestigious” site, now a museum, but once the safe-house for Pope Clement VII during the Sack of Rome in 1527. 

Politico Europe is particularly exercised that the Brothers of Italy says the nation’s “roots must be celebrated and absolutely defended,” and positively beside itself that the party’s “message resonates with younger supporters too.”

Oddly, the website never explicitly repeats the falsehood that Meloni’s party and others “stole” Christmas. But it does claim that her government took “ownership” of the Christian feast. That “fits,” ominously, “a broader project to reclaim control over cultural institutions from public broadcasting to museums and opera, after what it sees as decades of left-wing dominance.”

Thus must “mainstream parties … find a compelling counter-argument to convincingly defend secularism.”

Politico Europe’s concern: Meloni wants Italians to focus on the Nativity — the birth of Jesus Christ — ”rather than just associating Christmas with food and presents.”

No Merry Christmas

While that Christophobic salvo appeared on December 23, earlier this month Pavlovitz regurgitated his eggnog because of an X post from the White House. It declared that “we’re saying Merry Christmas again!” The message appeared over a picture of a beaming Orange Man Bad.