I don't go where I'm not wanted, but I tend to go where I'm needed.
So I was intrigued by an invitation to a sudden utopia called Davos, a globalist overnight camp in the beautiful Swiss Alps. At first, it sounded about as terrifying as a road trip with the New York Times editorial board.
Notoriously hypocritical self-proclaimed Marxists, private-jet environmentalists, and genocidal-adjacent humanitarians teach the Heritage Foundation how to “rebuild trust” with ordinary Americans who have weaponized their institutions. want to hear from you.
The Biblical principle, “Do not cast your pearls before swine,” came to mind. But a very meaningful part of my role at Heritage is representing the voices of the millions of forgotten men and women across this country. We are an outpost of everyday Americans in Washington, DC. That's why I'm happy – admittedly horrified – to cross the Atlantic and become a voice for left-wing elites to coddle intolerant elites and share inconvenient truths on the world stage. Ta.
And this is what I want to tell them.
First, you have to earn their trust. The global elites have not just failed in that respect. They squandered the vast reserves of trust inherited from their institutional predecessors. Media, academies, government agencies, international organizations, corporations, and the arts have traded centuries of public trust for unaccountable ideological exploitation of the people they claim to serve.
Sooner or later, ordinary citizens, workers, and families burdened by Davos-style global elitism will regain their individual rights and national sovereignty.
The national leaders of this conference openly reject the nation-state. They refuse to secure the besieged border for themselves. Academics and journalists openly subordinate facts to partisan ends that undermine public transparency and choice. Generals promote enlightened politics over military preparation. Corporate executives are lecturing their own people about “diversity, equity, and inclusion” while sending jobs overseas to tyrants like China's Xi Jinping. Artists and entertainers admire each other's cynical contempt for the people and values that underpin their privileged lives.
There's no mystery here. The reason people around the world distrust the global elite is because they hate us. they use their power take away power Our cultural influence and theirs vilify anyone who questions their selfish corruption.
This is a common virtue of constitutionalism, republicanism, nationalism, and free enterprise as traditionally practiced in the United States. Rather than subjecting the ambitions of the elite to the authority of the people, they do the opposite. This arrangement is good for the world and for everyone who has ever accepted it. But for elites who resist checks on their power and resent accountability to the “unwashed masses,” this is uniquely frustrating, and justifiably important. is.
Unchecked centralized power leads to tyranny. And the further away (or unleashed) power is from the people, the worse the disaster becomes.
To regain trust, therefore, Davos must embrace the moral virtues, practical interests, and natural rights of individual nations (and ultimately families and individuals) to govern themselves. No one seriously believes that the grand morals of the world's elites, such as bowing to China, erasing borders, and worshiping climate change extremism, will be upheld beyond the last generation. happened by chance Serving class interests at the direct cost of democratic sovereignty and economic opportunity for ordinary people.
Our fractured and troubled world doesn't need any more lectures on “openness” from those who covered up the origins of COVID-19 and then shut down people's lives for a year. Or about the “disinformation” from those who spent weeks defending Harvard's plagiarist president. Or diversity from a hermetic group of racist, anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic bigots.
We need nothing more than the freedom to govern ourselves.
That is what Brexit, Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Javier Millei, Geert Wilders and the growing global tide of populist and patriotic conservatism represent. Nationalism, the love of one's country and culture and the prioritization of one's own people and customs in policy decisions, cannot be erased and cannot be trampled upon.That's definitely true Be respected.
Trust is a choice.
Sooner or later, ordinary citizens, workers, and families burdened by Davos-style global elitism will regain their individual rights and national sovereignty. The only question is whether our elites can reorient our corrupt institutions toward trust and confidence before “we the people” take matters into our own hands.
Anyone attending the World Economic Forum needs to hear this message. That's why I go to Davos.
