I don’t typically go where I’m not wanted, but I do tend to go where I’m needed.
So I was intrigued by the invitation to attend a globalist sleepaway camp in the beautiful Swiss Alps—some pop-up utopia called Davos. At first, it sounded as dreadful as a road trip with the New York Times editorial board.
The infamous hypocritical self-avowed Marxists, private-jet environmentalists, and genocide-adjacent humanitarians want to hear from the Heritage Foundation how they can “rebuild trust” with everyday Americans against whom they have weaponized their institutions.
The biblical principle “cast not your pearls before swine” came to mind. But a deeply meaningful part of my role at Heritage is to represent the voice of millions of forgotten men and women across this country. We are the everyday American’s outpost in Washington, D.C. So I could happily—while admittedly dreadingly—hop across the Atlantic to the land where leftist elites indulge fellow insufferable elites and be a voice on the world stage sharing inconvenient truths.
First, trust must be earned. Global elites have not merely failed on that score. They have squandered the vast reserves of credibility they inherited from their institutional predecessors. The media, the academy, government agencies, international organizations, corporations, and the arts have traded in centuries’ worth of public trust in exchange for unaccountable, ideological exploitation of the people they claim to serve.
National leaders at this conference openly reject the nation-state. They refuse to secure their own besieged borders. Scholars and journalists openly subordinate facts to serve partisan ends that undermine transparency and choice for their citizens. Generals promote woke politics over military readiness. Corporate executives ship jobs overseas to tyrants like China’s Xi Jinping while lecturing their own countrymen about “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Artists and entertainers celebrate each other's sneering contempt for the people and values that fuel their privileged lives.
There is no mystery here. Around the world, people distrust global elites because they hate us. They use their power to
disempower us and their cultural influence to smear anyone who questions their self-serving corruption.
This is the common virtue of constitutionalism, republicanism, nationalism, and free enterprise, as they are traditionally practiced in the United States. They subject elites’ ambitions to the authority of the people instead of the other way around. This arrangement is good for the world and for every person who has ever embraced it. But it is uniquely frustrating to elites, who resist checks on their power and resent accountability to “the unwashed masses”—which, of course, is the point.Unchecked, centralized power leads to tyranny. And the disasters compound the farther the power drifts (or is untethered) from the people.
https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/c ... oing-davos
Here's his speech...
https://twitter.com/KevinRobertsTX/stat ... s-stage%2F
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime”
LAVRENTIY BERIA
"Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened."
brown's unheeded words of wisdom