Mike Gonzalez
Sometimes, ostensibly discrete global events come into focus and form a unified pattern. When that happens, the world suddenly starts making sense.
Here are some examples of “disparate” occurrences: The governments of Europe’s three most powerful countries suddenly complain that Elon Musk’s X is allowing conservatives to communicate and unite on a global basis, Facebook does an about-face and joins X in renouncing censorship, and “woke” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally accepts reality and resigns.
Finally, on Saturday, President Joe Biden gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, to George Soros, a nonagenarian billionaire who is a sworn enemy of all the above. “I just wish he loved, rather than hated, humanity,” Musk said of Soros in an X post.
The award to Soros, who has poured billions into all the worst ideas of the Left, from abortion to ethnic balkanization to rogue prosecutors who won’t prosecute criminals, ironically marked a turning point. It signaled the last fetid wind escaping the body politics of a dying world order.
The other events, which all took place at lightning speed within a 36-hour period, signal the winds of change blowing throughout the world.
The Left’s Open Declaration of War on Free Speech
American journalist Bari Weiss, who’s done so much to expand free expression, calls this “the crackup of the old consensus.” French President Emmanuel Macron, a charter member of this leftist unanimity of thought, bitterly complained at a conference in Paris that it’s the birth of a “new international reactionary movement.”
Macron is on to something: Conservatives across the globe are indeed uniting more than ever, and social media has helped. As someone who, for the past few years, has participated in the growing number of international confabs where like-minded conservatives share best practices, I toyed in my mind with the idea of promoting the NIRM as an acronym. » Read More
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/reversing-the-long-march-through-the-institutions