“Elites vs. Populists”

Whatever happened to Sadiq Khan, the bus driver’s son from Tooting? That was the ticket – pun intended – he soared to City Hall on in 2016. His ‘man of the people’ schtick was inescapable. He even tweeted about enjoying a cheeky Nando’s. The message was clear: I’m nothing like my predecessor as mayor, Boris Johnson, son of Bullingdon, or my Tory opponent for the mayoralty, Zac Goldsmith, son of a billionaire. No, I’m like you. Boy from Tooting done good. Shoulder-rubber with the little people. A breath of fresh air from the old elites who turned London into a playground for the rich and a hellhole for the poor.

The outrageous attempts of government officials in Brussels, Belgium, to repeatedly shut down a gathering of conservatives in the city that serves as the capital of the European Union has thrust the term “National Conservatism” into the headlines.

Their desperate, apoplectic last-minute efforts to suppress the meeting of National Conservatives backfired, yielding far more international attention for the conference than it would have otherwise garnered.

Just how deep is the nation’s divide? This election season, it feels as though the Left and Right inhabit the same physical space but live in separate dimensions — twin solitudes where everything means something else.

According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 7 million illegal immigrants have entered the country under President Joe Biden — and another 2 million got away. That’s bigger than the population of Los Angeles and Chicago combined. They entered without basic health examinations (let alone vaccines), without criminal background checks, without any knowledge of their education and work skills. The Left asks: Remind me again why we need borders?

The elites’ demonisation of rural America is out of control.

White American intellectuals are dumping all over the white working class – again. It seems they still haven’t learned that accusing vast swathes of voters of being malevolent, wild-eyed hillbillies isn’t the best way of persuading people to their cause.

In the new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, authors Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman claim to use ‘research’ and ‘studies’ to back up every liberal prejudice under the sun.

As I begin the promotion of my new book, I Will Not Eat Crickets (my first in the United States), I am delighted to see that the best campaign is being waged against me by those to whom I declare war in its pages. From the U.N. to Bill Gates, the globalists are all engaged in a desperate bid to prove that their lives and opinions are somewhere between satire and infamy, and that I may even have fallen short in some passages of my long declaration of war on globalism and its elites. 

Consequences await

The actions of Western countries are self-destructive. The question is why.

In the past and partially to this day, countries acted in their best interests. When those interests collided with those of other countries, the solution could come either through diplomacy, war, or potentially some form of arbitration.

Elites are turning on their own ‘core demographic’—even as Western working and middle classes are being pushed into rebellion.

Farmers’ revolts and geopolitical instability portend a year of flux in 2024, with the winter of 2023 becoming a touchstone for history books to mark as a transition for the international system and, specifically, the end of U.S. global hegemony. The American incapacity to hold together a coalition necessary to maintain essential cargo routes along the Red Sea—and losing face against Yemen’s Houthis, who are equipped with cheap drones—is likely a significant, if under-reported, milestone.

Geopolitics aside, what social transformations might Europeans and Westerners in general expect at home? What have imperial breakdowns meant for those who lived through them in the past? The following touches on a few of the factors that might cause what Arnold Toynbee called “the internal proletariat” to rebel against the political class in the West.

‘Anti-European’ populist parties are on track to make big gains across the continent in this year’s European Union elections, polling has found.

A report into the findings across all 27 EU member states has said the bloc will likely see ‘a sharp right turn’ in June in what would be nightmare result for Brussels.

It suggests radical right-wing parties are on course to finish first in nine countries, including France, Poland and Austria, and second or third in another nine – including Germany, Spain, Sweden and Portugal.

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— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) January 25, 2024

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