The ideologues of the Russian regime and those of the Trumpist administration accuse Europe of having abandoned the ideals of democracy and Christianity. Russian propagandists even accuse it of “Satanism,” while one of the MAGA ideologues, Peter Thiel, speaks of the coming of the Antichrist. For Françoise Thom, these people fail to see the beam in their own eye. One need only reread the ancients, the Greek and Roman thinkers, to see that the Trumpo-Putinians stand in stark opposition to the very ideas and practices they claim to uphold—ideas that form the bedrock of European civilization. A masterful lesson.