By Victor Davis Hanson |Townhall.com
Source:
AP Photo/Patrick Semansk
President Joe Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark
the start of a "new world order." In the middle of the COVID global
pandemic, Klaus Schwab and global elites likewise announced a "great
reset."
Accordingly, the nations of the world would
have to surrender their sovereignty to an international body of experts. They
would enlighten us on taxes, diversity, and green policies.
When former President Donald Trump got elected in 2016,
marquee journalists announced partisan reporting would have to displace the
old, supposedly disinterested approach to the news.
There is a common theme here.
In normal times progressives worry that they do not have
public support for their policies. Only in crises do they feel that the
political Left and media can merge to use apocalyptic times to ram through
usually unpopular approaches to foreign and domestic problems.
We saw that last year: fleeing from
Afghanistan, the embrace of critical race theory, trying to end the filibuster,
pack the court, junk the Electoral College, and nationalize voting laws.
These "new orders" and "resets"
always entail far bigger government and more unelected, powerful bureaucracies.
Elites assume that their radical changes in energy use, media reporting,
voting, sovereignty, and racial and ethnic quotas will never quite apply to
themselves, the architects of such top-down changes.
So we common folk must quit fossil fuels, but
not those who need to use corporate jets. Walls will not mar our
borders but will protect the homes of Nancy Pelosi, Mark Zuckerberg, and
Bill Gates.
Hunter Biden's lost laptop will be declared,
by fiat, not news. In contrast, the fake Alfa Bank "collusion"
narrative will be national headline news for weeks.
Middle-class lifestyles will be curbed as we are
instructed to strive for sustainability and transition to apartment living and
mass transit. But the Obamas will still keep their three mansions, and
Silicon Valley futurists will insist on exemptions for their yachts.
In truth, we are about to see a radical reset - of the
current reset. It will be a different sort of transformation than the elites
are expecting and one that they should greatly fear.
The world and the United States are furious over
hyperinflation that may soon exceed 10% per year. We will be lucky if it ends
only in recession or stagflation, rather than a global depression.
The mess was created by the same apparat who
bought into "modern monetary theory." That
silly university idea claimed prosperity would follow vastly expanding the
money supply, keeping interest rates at de facto zero levels, running huge annual
deficits, piling up unsustainable national debt, and subsidizing workers to
stay home.
Natural gas and oil costs are now soaring to
unsustainable levels - and to the point where the middle class simply will not
be able to travel, keep warm in winter, or cool in summer.
Both in Europe and the United States left-wing
governments deliberately curbed drilling and non-Russian pipelines. They shut
down nuclear power plants and subsidized costly, inefficient solar and wind
projects. They ended up not with utopia, but with fuel shortages, high prices,
and energy dependency on the world's most repressive regimes.
The woke revolution in the West was supposed to teach us
that the "white male"-dominated Western world is toxic. Its origins,
ascendence, and current leisure and affluence were supposedly due only to
systemic exploitation, racism, and sexism.
Elites introduced cancel culture, doxxing,
deplatforming, and social ostracism to shame these supposed exploiters and to
destroy their lives and careers.
Few asked how a supposedly noxious West of some 2,500
years duration became the number one destination of millions of global
non-Western migrants and offered the greatest degree of global prosperity and
freedom for its citizens.
So a reset reckoning is coming - in reaction to the
"new orders" championed by Biden and the Davos set.
In the November 2022 midterms, we are likely to see a
historic "No!" to the orthodox left-wing agenda that has resulted in
unsustainable inflation, unaffordable energy, war, and humiliation abroad,
spiraling crime, racial hostility - as well as arrogant defiance from those who
deliberately enacted these disastrous policies.
What will replace it is a return to what until recently
had worked.
Closed and secure borders with only legal and measured
immigration will return. Americans will demand tough police enforcement and
deterrent sentencing, and a return to integration and the primacy of individual
character rather than separatist fixations on the "color of our
skin."
The public will continue to tune out of the partisan and
mediocre "mainstream" media. We will see greater increased production
of oil and natural gas to transition us slowly to a wider variety of energy,
strong national defense, and deterrent foreign policies.
The prophets of the new world order sowed the wind and
they will soon reap the whirlwind of an angry public worn out by elite
incompetence, arrogance, and ignorance.
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Generic Ballot Shows GOP Crushing Democrats
by 11 Points in Midterm Election
BY RICK MORAN | P J MEDIA
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
The news keeps getting worse for Democrats as their midterm
prospects continue to dim.
The Republican Party is united, excited, and out for
blood. Democrats are in disarray — ambivalent about their party leader, unable
to find a winning issue, and anticipating defeat.
The Rassmussen generic congressional ballot of Republicans
versus Democrats for the midterm election shows Republicans winning 50-39
percent. The February Rassmussen generic congressional ballot had the GOP up
50-37 percent.
The two-point bump in support of Democrats is
insignificant when you consider that the GOP is winning in most age groups and
most income groups. And the GOP is clobbering the Democrats among independent
voters.
The 11-point edge for Republicans in the latest poll is
larger than Democrats enjoyed at any time during the 2018 midterm campaign, due both to greater GOP partisan
intensity and a 19-point advantage among independents. While 94% of Republican
voters say they would vote for their own party’s congressional candidate, only
82% of Democrats would vote for the Democratic candidate. Among voters not
affiliated with either major party, 46% would vote Republican and 27% would
vote Democrat, while 13% would vote for some other candidate and 14% are
undecided.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of whites, 28% of black voters
and 48% of other minorities would vote Republican if the election were held
today. Sixty-two percent (62%) of black voters, 36% of whites and 35% of other
minorities would vote Democrat.
The so-called “gender gap” is nearly non-existent in the
latest findings, with men (49%) one point less likely than women voters (50%)
to prefer Republican congressional candidates.
The usual caveats apply. We’re still nearly eight months
from the election. The war in Ukraine could prove to be a game-changer if Biden
is stupid enough to go to war against another nuclear power. And the national
media will pull out all the stops to prevent a big GOP win.
But they won’t be able to stop it. It won’t be possible to
hide the inflation, the shortages, or the spike in energy prices. Biden’s
attempts to evade responsibility will be in vain. The American people know
where responsibility for rising prices belongs. And they know which party is to
blame.
