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Could there be anything less MAGA than the annual gathering of the 55th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland? This year, with a shriveled attendance, the assembled corporate leaders, socialist governments, assorted big thinkers, United Nations officials, and woke NGOs don’t seem very happy. Indeed, they seem downright glum about their plans for world government run by euro-centric and Third World globalist elites.

Once a favorite place for preening politicians to show their world-humanitarian feathers, the affair has lost some luster.

“This year the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations are skipping the meeting,” Breitbart reported. Why? It seems Trumpism has put a cloud over the once-festive gathering of one-worlders.

Trump addressed the group by video Thursday, stressing that during his second term he would seek to reduce oil and gas prices, slash regulations, cut taxes for domestic companies and put tariffs on goods from countries who treat the U.S. unfairly,

The response by the clique of elitists to Trump’s decidedly non-globalist agenda was entirely predictable, drawing “pockets of laughter and a few moans with his blunt comments to an international audience … “

Laughter? Has the wind gone out of the globalists’ sails? Sure looks that way.

Consider that heavy hitters such as Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, India’s President Narendra Modi, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn’t bother to show up. Only one G7 leader attended: Desperate German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose economy is now shrinking.

Trump’s reception by the smirking, wealthy poobahs is quite a shift from the last president.

Former President Joe Biden, or whoever made his decisions for him, was loved by the Davosians and their adjunct, the United Nations. They saw eye-to-eye on so many issues, ranging from the need for higher taxes on corporations to the importance of more stifling regulation, multinational censorship, “net zero” CO2 emissions, and the necessity of strong “global governance” (i.e., world government), there’s really no difference.

Quietly, and with very little media coverage, over the last four years Biden took major steps to weaken the U.S. in world affairs, while often deferring to the EU, U.N., China and others that despise America’s strength, freedom and republican (small “r”) virtue.

It culminated with Biden backing the horrendous United Nations “Pact for the Future,” an innocuous sounding agreement that in fact would have built the foundations for world government, or as the U.N. euphemistically called it, “transforming global governance.”

“There was no debate, no media coverage, no press releases, and no interviews about the Biden-Harris administration’s surrender of United States sovereignty to the U.N.”, Robert Williams of the Gatestone Institute noted.

In short, Biden backed it, the media ignored it, and no one made too big a stink about it, except for conservatives and libertarians.

And behind all, giving the initiative a mighty push, was the World Economic Forum and its founder Klaus Schwab, along with a bevy of “forward-thinking” post-industrialists and failed politicians.

Indeed, the U.N.’s initiative is merely a riff on the WEF’s own “Great Reset,” an attempt to create a new global order from the ground up, with WEF elites at the very top.

Most of all, they agree that the old concept of a nation-state democratically representing the interests of its own citizens was obsolete. In its place, they seek global governance by corporate and governmental elites, one in which any individual nation’s own citizens would have a diminished, disempowered role.

The perfect example of this already exists: The feckless failure that is the European Union. Over the last decade or so, the 28-nation EU has presided over a near unparalleled economic stagnation. The same organization that boasted its economy would “leapfrog” the U.S. in 2000 now displays a moribund economy not even two-thirds the size of America’s. It’s losing ground fast.

This corrupt incompetence is no longer admired or accepted by people around the world. Just look at recent elections outside the U.S. and you get the picture. Trump vanquishing first Biden (who quit because his party knew he couldn’t win) and then Vice President Kamala Harris showed his power as a politician.

It didn’t hurt that he survived two potential assassinations without missing a beat. And in his first days in office, he (again) pulled out of the corrupt World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accords, and began closing our border to illegal immigrants, including potential terrorists and other criminals. People around the world wish they had leaders like him, leaders who brought more freedom, more safety and more economic growth.

“Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning — the Trump effect is now sweeping the globe,” recently wrote PJ Media’s Daniel McCarthy. “From Canada to the U.K. and continental Europe, left-liberal governments are tottering while right-leaning voters, especially young men, gravitate toward populist politics and take inspiration from Donald Trump’s success in America.”

True enough. Headlines such as these have become increasingly common recently: “A new age of politics is upon the world — as toppled leaders lose their grip on power,” “The Vibe Shift Goes Global,” and “Will Trumpism Go Global?” among many others. The world desperately wants leadership from America. Trump is providing it.

So maybe our long, national globalist nightmare is over. Whether the WEF and the literally dozens of globalist-socialist NGOs, billionaire CEOs, played-out “intellectuals,” and lefty hedge-fund managers that make up its core realize it or not, Trump’s model is far more appealing than the corrupt one-world socialism they’re offering.