Who really belongs in the dock here? Who caused this crisis
of political legitimacy now gripping the nations of the West?
Was it Donald Trump, who gives voice to the anger of those
who believe themselves to have been betrayed? Or the elites who betrayed them?
Can
that crowd at Davos not understand that it is despised because it is seen as
having subordinated the interests of the nations and people in whose name it
presumes to speak, to advance an agenda that serves, first and foremost, its
own naked self-interest?
The
political and economic elites of Davos have grow rich, fat and powerful by
setting aside patriotism and sacrificing their countries on the altars of
globalization and a New World Order…..
The
bleeding of factories and manufacturing jobs abroad has produced the
demoralization and decline of our middle class, along with the wage stagnation
and shrinking participation in the labor force.
Is Trump
responsible for that? Is Socialist Bernie Sanders, who voted against all those
trade deals?
If not, who
did this to us?
Was it not
the Bush Republicans and Clinton Democrats?
Americans never supported mass
immigration.
It was against their will that
scores of millions, here legally and illegally, almost all from Third World
countries, whose masses have never been fully assimilated into any western
nation, have poured into the USA.
Who voted for that?........
If the West embraces,
internalizes and operates on the principles of liberalism, Burnham wrote, the
West with meet an early death.
Among the dogmas of liberalism
is the unproven assumption that peoples of all nationalities, tribes, cultures,
creeds can coexist happily in nations, especially in a “creedal” nation like
the USA, which has no ethnic core but rather is built upon ideas.
A corollary is that “diversity,”
a new America and new Europe where all nations are multiracial, multiethnic,
multicultural and multilingual, is the future of the west and the model for
mankind.
Yet, large and growing minorities in every country of
Europe, and now in America, believe that not only is this proposition absurd,
the end result could be national suicide.
And when one considers the
millions who are flocking to Trump and Sanders, it is hard to believe that the
establishments of the two parties, even if they defeat these challengers, can
return to same old interventionist, trade, immigration and war policies.
For Trump is not the last of the
populist-nationalists.
Given his success, other Republicans
will emulate him. Already, other candidates are incorporating his message. The
day Francis predicted was coming appears to have arrived.
Angela Merkel may have been
Time’s Person of the Year in 2016, but she will be lucky to survive in office in
2017, if she does not stop the invasion from Africa and the Middle East.
Yet Joe Biden’s dismissal that
it is reactionaries who oppose what the progressives of Davos believe is not
entirely wrong. For as Georges Bernanos wrote, when Europe was caught between
Bolshevism and fascism:
To be a reactionary means simply
to be alive, because only a corpse does not react any more — against the
maggots teeming on it.
