The triumphant return of President-elect Donald Trump did not occur in a vacuum. Throughout the world, governments led by the parties of the 21st-century global political establishment find themselves reeling from a public blowback that has been decades in the making.
“From America’s Democrats to Britain’s Tories, [French President] Emmanuel’s Macron’s Ensemble coalition to Japan’s Liberal Democrats, even to [India Prime Minister] Narendra Modi’s erstwhile dominant BJP, governing parties and leaders have undergone an unprecedented series of reversals this year,” John Burn-Murdoch wrote Nov. 7 in an article for UK newspaper Financial Times that has received widespread attention.
“The incumbents in every single one of the 10 major countries that have been tracked by the ParlGov global research project and held national elections in 2024 were given a kicking by voters. This is the first time this has ever happened in almost 120 years of records,” Burn-Murdoch stated. Global inflation is suggested as the main driver of this phenomenon. In America, progressive establishment supporters of failed Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris have seized on this explanation to wave off her loss as being more about a rough climate for incumbents in general than any stern rejection of the agenda she stood for.
‘The Anti-Inflation Backlash of 2024’
Alex Soros, son of globalist billionaire George Soros, highlighted the ParlGov findings in an X post that began with the words, “Before you beat yourself up about the elections … ”
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David Frum, Never Trumper and political writer for The Atlantic, argued that any Republican nominee would have won in the year of “the anti-inflation backlash of 2024” and scolded GOP primary voters for not backing another candidate.
“Voters don’t like high prices, so they punished the Democrats for being in charge when inflation hit,” Burn-Murdoch stated. The forces behind Harris might dearly love for this to be the entire truth. But perhaps the $10 cartons of eggs did Harris in, you see. The basic principles behind her campaign were solid, they claim.
But is it really that simple?
Establishment Rollbacks in Germany and Canada
In Germany, the governing coalition of Social Democratic Party (SPD) Chancellor Olaf Scholz has just collapsed. The surging populist-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is demanding snap elections. Two vital issues top its indictment of Scholz. The AfD “has criticized the coalition for failing on all policy levels, calling for a radical change, especially in migration and foreign policy,” German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle related. “Similar to US President-elect Donald Trump, the party has campaigned hard against irregular migration and open borders. And it vehemently opposes all arms shipments to Ukraine.”
In Canada, embattled progressive establishment Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in October announced a sharp reduction in the number of immigrants his government will allow into the country. Trudeau has engineered a social crisis in the Great White North with his open-borders migration policies during his nine long years in office. Canadians have been left staggered by housing shortages and cratering health care and other basic services since Trudeau opened the floodgates to massive immigration.
“The drop in immigration – by more than 120,000 over three years after a significant cut between this year and next – is a dramatic U-turn from its announcement last year to further increase permanent resident intake to 500,000 in 2025,” Canadian newspaper the National Post noted of the prime minister’s retreat. Why the change? Trudeau seems to be struggling to keep his tottering government from suffering a Scholz-like collapse. “The sudden shift in government policy comes on the heels of a tense Liberal caucus meeting [on Oct. 23] in which dozens of [Members of Parliament] aired their grievances to Trudeau, frustrated over the widespread unpopularity of their leader and his policies,” the paper reported.
This is the fine print left out in the Soros and Frum spin attempts.
“An update of economist Arthur Okun’s ‘misery index’ – the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates – for this era might swap out joblessness and replace it with immigration,” Burn-Murdoch continued in his Financial Times piece. “On this basis, the past couple of years in the US, UK and dozens of other countries have been characterized by more economic and societal upheaval than they have seen in generations.”
That upheaval didn’t happen on its own. A political class far removed from the citizens it claims to represent sowed the storm of grave discontent. Is it now beginning to reap the whirlwind? It’s a question Liberty Nation News asked in 2022: “Unpopular Politicians: How Long Can They Hold the West?”
France’s Macron two years ago was described by a friendly establishment press as an “object of sheer hatred” among the general public. Yet he won re-election that April. Big-box Canadian newspaper The Toronto Globe and Mail warned that Trudeau must face the reality that “he is not well-liked by broad swaths of the public” and that he “incites a visceral response in many Canadians.” But he was still riding high in 2022.
It has always been a bad look for the so-called defenders of “democracy,” dating back to the days of Angela Merkel and George W. Bush: The people despise us, yet we control the highest elected offices they have to offer. Eventually, something had to give. Nov. 5 in America was a major breaking point, but the globalist establishment dam is leaking water all over. The great reaction against it and what it brings is not going to stop with Trump.
