Europe is irrelevant in Trump's new world - Hadley Gamble
Donald Trump declares he was 'saved by God to Make America Great …
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As an American, Donald Trump’s inaugural address was, without reservation, the greatest political disquisition of my lifetime. It was a clear-eyed vision for rebuilding the country based not on the demands of the few but on the needs of the many. While the global “elite” were drowning here at Davos in a sea of woke and wet, President Trump declared an era of survival of the fittest; and America, he claims, would be on top. The President targeted everything from the wars he didn’t start to the gender politics that have dominated the cable news coverage of his election. For half the country, it was a call to arms; a challenge to America to save itself. For the rest, an ominous warming: the end of woke is nigh.
The President’s vision will no doubt be chewed-up, fact-checked (but not by META), digested then regurgitated at length across the “fake news” channels he derides. But to lose oneself in the verbosity is to miss the bigger picture: he’s put the country and the world on notice. This is a president that has a vision of hope and change just as a powerful as that of his predecessor Barack Obama; but unlike the man who won a Nobel Peace Prize without a single foreign policy achievement, Mr. Trump has already called a halt to one of the deadliest conflicts of this century even before taking office. His peace deal in the Middle East still holds. In other words, this is a man who has proved, he can execute. He can get it done.
Donald Trump's presidency sparks the end for woke culture.
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The President’s swath of executive orders in the hours following his inauguration were directly in line with his promises on the campaign trail; a notable pause came on TikTok, where Mr. Trump suggested it could be a great business- if America gets a piece of the action. It was Trump at his best, ready to cut a deal; but it was also an example of the Trump doctrine that saw the President winning on multiple fronts during his first administration. As the saying goes, If you muddy waters, you can catch fish.
Fellow leaders in the West may well wring their hands at this new dawn; politicians in Europe who have repeatedly led their constituents down the garden path when it comes to the cost of freedom, the realities of the energy transition, and the possibility of continuing “nanny states” for another generation should consider themselves on notice. To be clear, what Mr. Trump said wasn’t anti-liberal; it was just anti-stupid. The truth of Trump's words – that citizens should be taught to love their country and encouraged to take pride in their nation would do well to be reflected in Western democracies.
Not once in his 30-minute address did President Trump mention Europe, a once powerful trading block that has repeatedly refused to deregulate, modernize, compromise, or commit to the cost of its own defense. The result is irrelevance; in Trump’s book, you’ve got to pay to play. To go from being a the world’s third richest industrial block to global irrelevance is quite an achievement. If Trump’s world is survival of the fittest, these leaders are clearly no longer fit.
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