...why does he think Whigs are dumb, again?
I forget how it happened, but apparently Fox let the Royal Navy collapse and fall into disarray because the ideological threat from French racial supremacists (in that Frenchmen because mumble are the master race) such that the French can invade England.
I think this is somehow an analogy for how Fox questioned why Britain needed to become a police state to help the Austrians and Prussians defeat the French.
Hrm. You know, I don't think Thande meant it, but it seems like the key point of LTTW is that without America to show people how to stand up to kings and despots, the world is a dark and scary place.