OPINION:
Buckle your seat belts: President-elect Donald Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites.
We are entering a new era of rebellion against the self-serving, out-of-touch political machines that ignore the will of the governed.
Everywhere.
Look around.
The world is a mess. Entrenched political leaders and parties are being tumultuously evicted in Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia.
In the U.K., the Conservative Party government lost its moorings and was chased from office, only to be replaced by an economically incompetent Labor Party that came into office and raised taxes on everything and everyone and plunged the economy into recession.
The French just ousted their prime minister for the first time in decades, “thrusting the country into chaos,” as CNN put it.
Germany’s government is also on the verge of collapse. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been forced to request a vote of confidence later this month. The Associated Press reports that “his three-party coalition government collapsed last month.”
In South Korea, the president invoked martial law, and now the citizens are demanding his impeachment.
In Japan, the ruling party was voted out in October, for the first time since 1955.
Mexico and Canada have elected leftist boobs who are losing support by the day.
Way ahead of the pack is Argentina, where “shock capitalist” Javier Milei, who says “I despise the state,” was elected president a year ago and has become an international hero for his chain-saw approach to shrinking big government.
Now is the hour of the world’s discontent.
Why are the dominoes of government tumbling so suddenly?
One word: Trump. The world has watched with fascination and even admiration at the peaceful citizen uprising in America. The masses around the world are screaming, ‘we want Trumpism here in our country!’
They seem to be saying, “Make Britain great again. Make Germany and Japan and South Korea and Canada great again.”
The politicians, bureaucrats and elite academics are horrified. They should be.
The anger at the political class is boiling over with scalding resentment against government incompetence, fiscal mismanagement and statist directives that snatch away basic freedoms.
They have commanded us that we can’t have a gas stove, a gasoline-powered car, a lawn mower or an air conditioner. Parents can’t send their kids to good schools.
My, how the tables have turned. The politicians who profess to care so much about the working classes are now despised by the voters.
The masses around the world are seeing the bounce in the step in America in the wake of Mr. Trump’s election. With his message of efficiency, fairness, home rule, love of country and prosperity, his poll numbers have surged not only here but all over the world.
It’s a virtual certainty that voters everywhere are going to demand commonsense Trumpian policies in their own towns and countries. As Mr. Trump has said, all leaders should put their own country first. Global government is dead for now.
It’s a grassroots “power to the people” movement — something liberals once believed in.
I wouldn’t want to be Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau or Mr. Scholz right now. The Trumpians are coming for them.
Good riddance.
• Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
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