Inauguration Day: Tale Of Two Agendas
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Donald Trump, now the 45th and 47th president of the United States, promised his “top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free,” during his second inaugural speech Monday. At the same time roughly half way around the globe, a group met with the intention of dividing the world into two parts – an inner circle of masters and the rest of the 8 billion on Earth who would be ruled by them.
Trump is far from being the fascist that his most rabid opponents claim he is. Chapman University professor Joel Kotkin captures well the baseless smears aimed at Trump in a recent post in Sp!ked:
To listen to much of the media, progressive politicians and many academics, Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday will usher in a politics we have not seen since the days of Mussolini, Franco and, worst of all, Hitler. In her presidential campaign, vice-president Kamala Harris openly called Trump ‘a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.’
The article’s subhead: “There is nothing Nazi-like about Donald Trump or his programme for America.”
During his speech Monday, Trump failed to reference any of history’s fascists. He didn’t endorse their train schedules. He didn’t propose economic or industrial policy in which the government centrally plans private-sector activities and pursuits. He never summarized his agenda as “everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state,” as Mussolini did.
Instead, he talked about restoring freedom, including free speech. About the rule of law. About America’s exceptionalism. About letting people buy whatever car they — not government masters — choose.
“Our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free,” he said.
At the same time, the world’s elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the 55th annual World Economic Forum, which it claims is always an effort to bring “together government, business and civil society leaders to set the year’s agenda for how leaders can make the world a better place for all.”
But that’s simply a windy slogan that covers schemes that truly are fascistic.
Trump, for instance, wants Americans to live like kings. The WEF wants everyone outside its elitist bubble to live like peasants – and to like it.
Trump wants to cut taxes, deregulate and lop off large chunks of the bureaucracy. The WEF wants a world where taxes are higher everywhere, billions submit to the will of a powerful cadre, speech that offends those in power is snuffed out, and limits are placed on the travel of everyday people.
In short, the WEF leaders, unlike Trump, who promised to restore lost and tattered liberties, “want to arrange people’s lives.” It always has had a special warmth for despicable figures such John Kerry, whom we said two years ago is “not the worst person in the world” “because he has so much competition at Davos.” The WEF attracts the sort of people web developer and blogger Richard Fernandez describes as “the most narcissistic people on the planet,” who naturally believe “they know all the answers.”
And, we hasten to add, they’re not shy about wanting to force these “answers” on the rest of us.
At least for now, some dissent is allowed. Argentina President Javier Milei, who is leading a historical liberty-advancing revolution in his country, was in Washington Monday to support Trump, and is scheduled to address the WEF today. It should be a good show. Last year he “socked it to the Davos crowd” and “emphasized the importance of economic freedom in causing these results and the role of socialist policies” – those preferred by the WEF’s most dedicated participants – “in keeping people poor or throwing them into poverty,” says economist David R. Henderson.
Trump is also expected to address the WEF conference. He will speak later this week through a video link. Let’s hope he holds nothing back, and even tells WEF founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab that he will support legislation to end U.S. taxpayer funding for the organization. The hard-working people of this country shouldn’t be required to financially support an institution that is anti-American.
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