2024: when everything you were told was proven wrong
Reflections on an epoch-making year
In 2016, Donald Trump was elected President and Britain voted for Brexit. It was supposed to be the start of an era in which national identity and the nation-state, or “populism” in the eyes of the intelligentsia, were coming back. In 2020, the globalists attempted to coerce people into line and this continued into 2021. Life became unbearable.
Fortunately, we’ve seen a turnaround since 2022. Woke ideology is in retreat and the media and academic elites have been thoroughly exposed, their moral authority collapsing. The trends which began then accelerated following October 7. For a start, things like CRT, DEI, postcolonialism and identity politics have been increasingly repudiated. Australia voted against the Voice in October 2023.
So you see, this was and is a process which gained momentum in 2024, with the return of Donald Trump to the presidency one part of it, leading to epic copium and soul-searching among liberals and progressives. So too is the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, dealing a blow to “anti-imperialist” and “Third Worlidst” ideologues.
What to expect in 2025? Canada and Australia face critical elections. The Islamic Republic regime in Iran may well collapse - its regional influence unraveled in 2024 as Hamas and Hezbollah were dealt humiliating blows and Assad fell from power.
We’ve been dragged through so much unpleasantness it’s going to take time to unwind it. Bring on 2025!
A great reflection on the year and decade that was, David.
If the left were wondering how far they can push the mainstream populous - well now they know. What I find so baffling is the left's inability to accept or understand how, and why, society has reached this catalsying moment in time.
I can't help thinking that 2025 will echo some of what post-war Europeans felt and went through in 1945. The fundamental reality of reaching a turning point was real enough, but the pathway to normalcy was far from clear.
Let's hope that the Western world's transition to reality, and the rightful resumption of prosperity and exceptionalism, is no longer inhibited by the encumbrance of institutionalised cultural Marxism.