Below is my column in the Hill on the recent World Forum where leaders gathered to declare “A New World Order with European Values.” Globalists gathered in Berlin to seek a new era based on European values that not only involve the expansion of transnational systems but the contraction of free speech rights.
Here is the column:
“A New World Order With European Values.” Emblazoned across banners and signs, those words met the participants at this week’s meeting of the World Forum in Berlin.
Each year, leaders, executives, journalists and academics gather to address the greatest threats facing humanity. This year, there was little doubt about what they view as the current threat: the resurgence of populism and free speech.
In fairness to the Forum, “a New World Order” likely sounds more ominous for some civil libertarians than intended. While the European Union is a transnational government stretching across 27 nations, the organizers were referring to a shift of values away from the United States to Europe.
As one of the few speakers at the forum who was calling for greater protections for free speech, I found it an unnerving message. Even putting aside the implications of the New World Order, the idea of building a world on today’s European values is alarming for free speech.
Free speech is in a free fall in Europe, with ever-expanding speech regulations and criminal prosecutions — including for having “toxic ideologies.”
The World Forum has a powerful sense of fraternity, even an intimacy, among leaders who see each other as a global elite — a cadre of enlightened minds protecting citizens from their own poor choices and habits.
There has long been a push for transnational governing systems, and European figures see an opportunity created by the conflict with President Trump. The European Union is the model for such a Pax Europaea or “European peace.”
The problem is that this vision for a new Holy Roman Empire lacks a Charlamagne. More importantly, it lacks public support.
The very notion of a “New World Order” is chilling to many who oppose the rise of a globalist class with the rise of transnational governance in the European Union and beyond.
This year, there is a sense of panic among Europe’s elite over the victory of Trump and the Republicans in the U.S., as well as nationalist and populist European movements.
For globalists, the late Tip O’Neill’s rule that “all politics is local” is anathema. The European Union is intended to transcend national identities and priorities in favor of an inspired transnational government managed by an expert elite.
The message was clear. The new world order would be based on European, not American, values. To rally the faithful to the cause, the organizers called upon two of the patron saints of the global elite: Bill and Hillary Clinton. President Clinton was even given an award as “leader of the century.”
The Clintons were clearly in their element. Speaker after speaker denounced Trump and the rise of what they called “autocrats” and “oligarchs.” The irony was crushing. The European Union is based on the oligarchy of a ruling elite. The World Forum even took time to celebrate billionaires from Bill Gates to George Soros for funding “open societies” and greater transnational powers.
The discussions focused on blunting the rise of far-right parties and stemming the flow of “disinformation” that fosters such dissent.
Outside of this rarefied environment, the Orwellian language would border on the humorous: protecting democracy from itself and limiting free speech to foster free speech.
Yet, one aspect of the forum was striking and refreshingly open. This year it became clear why transnational governance gravitates toward greater limits on free speech.
Of course, all of this must be done in the name of democracy and free speech.
There is a coded language that is now in vogue with the anti-free speech community. They never say the word “censorship.” They prefer “content moderation.” They do not call for limiting speech. Instead, they call for limiting “false,” “hateful” or “inciteful” speech.
As for the rise of opposing parties and figures, they are referred to as movements by “low-information voters” misled by disinformation. Of course, it is the government that will decide what are acceptable and unacceptable viewpoints.
That code was broken recently by Vice President JD Vance, who confronted our European allies in Munich to restore free speech. He stripped away the pretense and called out the censorship.
With the rise of populist groups, anti-immigration movements and critics of European governance, there is a palpable challenge to EU authority. In that environment, free speech can be viewed as destabilizing because it spreads dissent and falsehoods about these figures and their agenda. Thus far, “European peace” has come at the price of silencing many of those voices; achieving the pretense of consensus through coerced silence.
Transnational governance requires consent over a wide swath of territory. The means that the control or cooperation of media and social media is essential to maintaining the consent of the governed.
That is why free speech is in a tailspin in Europe, with ever-expanding speech regulations and criminal prosecutions.
Yet, it is difficult to get a free people to give up freedom. They have to be very afraid or very angry. One of the speakers was Maria A. Ressa, a journalist and Nobel laureate. I admire Ressa’s courage as a journalist but previously criticized her anti-free speech positions. Ressa has struck out against critics who have denounced her for allegedly antisemitic views. She has warned that the right is using free speech and declaring “I will say it now: ‘The fascists are coming.’”
At the forum, Ressa again called for the audience of “powerful leaders” to prevent lies and dangerous disinformation from spreading worldwide.
But the free speech movement has shown a surprising resilience in the last few years. First, Elon Musk bought Twitter and dismantled its censorship apparatus, restoring free speech to the social media platform. More recently, Mark Zuckerburg announced that Meta would also restore free speech protections on Facebook and other platforms.
In a shock to many, young Irish voters have been credited with killing a move to further expand the criminalization of speech to include “xenophobia” and the “public dissemination or distribution of tracts, pictures or other material” from viewpoints barred under the law.
Anti-free speech forces are gathering to push back on such trends. Indeed, Hillary Clinton has hardly been subtle about the dangers of free speech to the new world order. After Musk bought Twitter with the intention of restoring free speech protections, Clinton called upon the European Union to use its infamous Digital Services Act to make Musk censor her fellow Americans. She has also suggested arresting those spreading disinformation.
The European Union did precisely that by threatening Musk with confiscatory fines and even arrest unless he censored users. When Musk decided to interview Trump in this election, EU censors warned him that they would be watching for any disinformation.
For many citizens, European governance does not exactly look like a triumph over “oligarchs” and “autocrats.” Indeed, the EU looks pretty oligarchic with its massive bureaucracy guided by a global elite and “good” billionaires like Soros and Gates.
Citizens would be wise to look beyond the catchy themes and consider what Pax Europaea would truly mean to them. We have many shared values with our European allies. However, given the current laws limiting political speech, a “New World Order Based on European Values” is hardly an inviting prospect for those who believe in robust democratic and free speech values.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Since the financial crisis, European growth has flatlined. This flatlining occurred well before Covid or the Ukraine War. The cause is obvious: taxes and regulations have boomed in Europe. Meanwhile, the USA has pulled way ahead.
The apologists will argue that Europe has achieved a better quality of life because of free healthcare, paid leave, etc.–in other words, non-cash benefits mandated by the government. This is a flat lie and becoming a bigger lie every day. Socialized medicine is resulting in long queues for critical healthcare because most of the benefits go where the votes are: poor migrants and unwed mothers. People are dying waited for procedures they spent their whole lives paying for. And young people in Sweden have few opportunities because the unemployment rate is stuck around 10%. It’s not just the Swedes. It’s all over Europe.
Today, innovation has stagnated in Europe, and everybody in Europe knows it. What is more, none of the top 20 corporations today are based in Europe. Before 2008, Europe was flourishing in many metrics, even by American standards. That has not been true for at least the last 15 years.
The political class in Europe has become a criminal conspiracy to arrogate more and more power, status, and wealth to fewer and fewer parasites, and the Tory dandies in London who still believe in globalism (because they’re among the minority who benefit) will not fight for the fellow countrymen. Globalist leftism is rotting out Europe. Its already bad and getting worse faster. The snob class wants to curtail free speech because they can no longer hide the truth any other way.
Diogenes: I just posted a chart comparing debt-to-GDP ratios of countries. Why do you think U.S.’s is higher than European countries (both in and outside of EU)?
Not a trick question. I really don’t know. thanks
(p.s. these rankings of U.S. have nothing to do with TRump. He’s only been here for 65+/- days after a 4-year hiatus.)
Lin, I can’t see the chart on my phone. Is both public and private debt higher?
@Diogenes
Indeed. And it sn’t done here, either. Make no mistake: even though AOC’s tour is about as grassroots as astroturf, there are a great many younger people in this country that would love to have communists controls ruling their lives so they don’t have to think, or try, and no matter what we do, this will rear its head in some form n 20 or so years, make no mistake.
We are teetering on a precipice in the free world; this has not been decided by the turning of the tide here we’ve seen – it isn’t over. If we value liberty, this is the time to stand up. The midterms have to be an even more epic victory than the general was. Yes, all the modern left has are lies and opposition, no policy, but there a a whole lotta people that believe them, and stalwart as our system is, it is up to us to keep it alive. I fear things are about to get tougher, not easier, and all of us must live in this world we are creating. Hold the line.
Literally stating, ‘New World Order’ while praising the Clintons and Soros after he was gifted with a medal by the Biden White House could not be more clear – real fascism is back, and the people involved are wealthy and connected beyond belief, and have no regard for anyone outside of their milieu. it’s why they hate Elon, because he is currently the wealthiest and they can’t touch him. It’s why they are trying to tank his stock. The bullets are dollars in 2025, and again, that is why they hate the gutting of USAID et. al.
This has become a very dangerous game we are playing, and the outcome of these machinations are not good for anyone alive. We get confirmation after confirmation. Do not relent. Double down, as they are.
James,
Well said. The good news is, the leftists continue to double down on stupid and crazy, alienating more and more of their base. Even Democrats favorite elites the Clintons have not done the Democrat party a lot of good by calling out for censorship. The bad news is they do have money and connections. But Trump, Musk and DOGE have called out the fraud, waste and abuse that benefited the lefitsts and elites. While a smaller part of the Democrat party wants the fraud, waste and abuse to continue, the rest of the Democrat party thinks cutting fraud, waste and abuse is a good thing. Same goes for deporting violent, criminal illegals. And that is why the Democrat party is polling so low. That is why so many of the Democrat base are leaving the party. Just look at the CNN poll.
@Upstate
Agreed, but do not underestimate the cohort in the wings that think AOC is their savior. We have a long, long road ahead of us. She actually could win if the perfect storm of circumstances are in place; we have to ensure that never happens. I am really not cool with the cockiness we are seeing on the part of the opposition to any of this – we are far from home, still. November was a blip on the radar. There’s a lot remaining to do, and it’s going to take a good deal of time. Those that oppose freedom are not just going to sit on their knees in the interim, and a lrge percentage of us will never know the level of orchestration just as they haven’t in the past. 🤷🏻♂️ Worse; they won’t care.
It is wholly disconcerting to see where the U.S. lands on the chart with regard to debt-to-GDP ratios –compared to European countries. Take a look:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/debt-to-gdp-ratio-by-country
Are we victims of other countries enriching themselves on unfair trade, as Trump says?
Are we giving too much of America’s riches away while increasingly becoming a welfare state at home?
Are we not producing the greatest inventors/thinkers/visionaries that we once had?
Are too many of our patents/technologies/developments being stolen and replicated by others?
Are we no longer selling what other countries are buying?
Are we creating an internal population of takers rather than contributors?
Are we no longer the world leader in economic development and retention?
Does Europe really need us, notwithstanding whether or not we helped Europe recover and succeed, i.e., get where it is?
I really don’t have the answer. In fact, I do not have a clue.
p.s. to open the descending chart, you have to move your cursor down the internal column on the right, just adjacent to the column that reads “General Government Debt 2022. -not the external cursor to the right of that
Lin, I see your chart now. This is public debt to GDP. I can tell you a couple of big reasons are we’re paying everybody else’s bills, either through the drain of illegal immigration on state finances or the drain of foreign wars.
You’re kidding, right? Musk boasts about installing the same kinds of shadow-banning he claims to have eliminated. He cheerfully allows censorship from foreign governments as long as he gets paid. Trump wants to deport any foreign national who exercises 1st amendment rights if they disagree with him, and to deny already allocated funds to universities that actually allow free speech.
You are correct that Europe isn’t doing well in terms of free speech. But neither is the US, and that’s largely because of your heroes.
I began the morning reading an article in The Hill and was surprised to find I agreed with everything in it..The Hill, no less.
Then I looked for the author…Professor Turley, of course, and it is the article he references in this post.
Thank you for manning the barricades, Professor Turley, or is it Horatio at the bridge?—some hero in any event. Thank you.
The world is headed down a very dangerous slippery slope. I hope we can catch ourselves before we get to the point of no return.
@ajeanneinthekitchen
Very much a greed. We seem to be the only ones currently attempting to turn the tide, at least in terms of our governance. Scary stuff.
It sure is!!!!!
One aspect of the natural laws of economics is that mankind will think and act freely with reasonable restraints and guardrails. . . . All in due time, it will prevail.
The modern day Tower of Babel.
Its typical USA, blame everyone but themselves for what its depredations.
The biggest threat to the USA is within its borders: corporations, commercial, education, religion etc.
Don’t blame Europe, blame us.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
The Europeans allowed themselves to be disarmed.
These satanic WEF cretures wouldn’t be doing anything if their subjects
were armed to the teeth and getting angrier.
NEVER give up your guns.
182,500 American men died on European soil to get rid of a man who like Democrats today said that free speech should be eliminated. Many European nations are now putting his playbook back into action. You all know who he was. These people now invoke his name in comparison to Donald Trump while at the same time calling for this mans policy of the elimination of the right to speak freely. Be aware. What you see here is the continued prowling of a pack of one eyed jackles picking over the bones after the wolves have done their business. Their fellow scavengers are commonly known as vultures.
Europeans owe the USA nothing. As for what the Europeans are doing, we know nothing but what the media wants us to know.
And be aware you are being fed propaganda by of all people, a lawyer.
Turley is not some patriot, he’s a propagandist. And he got you eating out of his hand.
Seems the EU elites are not reading the room. There are a large and growing number of people, many of them young, who are not keen on being ruled by these elites with no say. That is why the AfD did so well in the last German elections, while the green party and the socialist party loss ground and seats. Conservative parties have gained ground in other countries as well. So what do the elites do? What they always do to maintain power, censorship in the name of saving democracy.
Meanwhile the EU is talking about a non-US NATO army or EU army. Of course it will be the elites who will command it. They going to bring back mandatory conscription? That is going to be ever so popular with voters. I am a-okay with that. Let them do the actual fighting in a real war.
Turley and Trump seem to be missing the bigger picture. The real issue isn’t the so-called European elites; it’s Trump himself. In Europe, people tend to be better educated, and they have a clearer grasp of how free speech and economic differences work. The ones who are mainly complaining in Europe are similar to those who have seized control in our own government—people who lack awareness and understanding. It’s important to realize that the “elites” are still in charge here. They are counting on your lack of knowledge and understanding to rally against what would actually benefit you.
He’ssssssssss backkkkkkkkkkk……….
Let’s take a dose of common sense. In all human societies, going back to caveman days, leadership falls to the most intellectually and socially competent, which rules out the young and naive. In modern society, would you entrust leadership to the less educated? The worst leaders are going to be overconfident, low-info types — they will blunder their way through — their defensiveness means any criticism will be countered with a personal attack.
So, who are these “elites”? In a country like Russia with a rigid class structure, this grouping is much more distinct. In the US, leadership, education, and problem-solving ambition is widely dispersed….it is NOT centralized, nor bound by top-down command structure. I think calling out “elites” is a tell that the speaker has no idea how to gain power in this society (by taking responsibility for providership to others).
I don’t consider the wealthy “elite” — they get cancer and car-crash injuries just like everyone else.
Never underestimate the ability of politicians to call each other dirty names in public and then go out together for coffee and have a great time laughing about how they fooled the public like 2 attorneys agreeing to play their clients against each other in order to drag out the court case and make more money for themselves.
Missing huh? george you are a nutjob.
Europe has been living off of the braking backs of the American taxpayer, and in fact King George started that trend long ago and was met initially by a tea party in Boston. These same child sacrificing, sex perverts crept back into the United States in 1913 under the Federal Reserve Act and have been assassinating any media or political figure that stands in their way ever since.
My, you’re infected with paranoia.
The EU is looking for a strong alpha male leader, possibly from Germany.
Like King Charlemagne.
We have almost NO shared values with Europe! Not anymore! America’s left has shared values with Europe (same censorship, globalism, new world order, climate-worshipping, Islam-friendly, Christian- and Jew-hating, Western-culture abandoning, illegals-pandering Europe, who are lovers of WEF, WHO, UN, NATO, etc.). But new Europe has almost no shared values with the majority and growing right- and center-populist America. Americans are clawing back traditional American values from the left. And we mean to continue. Europe has abandoned democracy and is rapidly embracing communism.
Since Europe is now globalist/socialist/communist, America needs to rethink old relic alliances and decouple from nations with whom we no longer have shared (even antithetical) values. Russia has not been communist for near 40 years and is now more democratic than 90% of NATO nations. NATO, WEF, WHO, EU, UN, WEF are all ticks on the American dog from which there is no reciprocity. Dump Europe…make alliances with the new Russia. If America doesn’t and China does, the world is toast. Yes, Putin may be a thug, but he’s no worse (if as bad) as Clinton, Biden, Obama, Zelensky, Starmer, Trudeau, Macron, and their ilk. At least he protects his people!
We have almost NO shared values with Europe! Really? You’re wrong, its called world domination.
Your comment reeks of paranoia.
Bet you think JFK was killed by the CIA.
What idiocy. “We have almost no shared values with Europe”. Forget about things like a well-educated populace, freedom of religion, inventive problem-solving, entertainment, sports, the family. Those don’t count.
This viewpoint is based on Europe and the US taking somewhat differing approaches on contemporary issues like:
Europe ahead / US lagging:
digital privacy rights
food safety
retreat from medical interventions for trans youth
metric system adoption
US ahead / Europe lagging:
illegal immigration controls
deregulation / workplace rules
race/ethnic/religious assimilation
national security / defense
But, when one continent makes progress in solving a problem, the other will follow that lead. Europe and the US
are grounded in the same philosophical origin (the age of enlightenment within Judeo-Christian roots). Those who are aggrandizing our differences with Europe have lost perspective, and are blinded by conflict theatrics.
Let me suggest that you read “Putin’s People” by Catherine Belton. Reviewers have described it as the best book ever written about Putin. You will be surprised to read that the man (under whose leadership Russia has become, according to you, more democratic than 90% of NATO nations!) is a gangster and murderer. I don’t think any of the leaders you compare Putin to have every been considered gangsters and murderers.
When the EU writes a proper Constitution to give its federal government the full complement of sovereign powers (the Money Power, the Taxing Power, the Military Power, the Enforcement Power) I will take them seriously. Right now they only have partial money power at the federal level, and are otherwise about the same as our old Articles of Confederation, where power always flowed through state governments. They need to do their version of the 1787 Convention first.
Astute observation. Europe is facing the same quandaries as faced the 1st Continental Congress. Without a strong Executive who is Commander-in-Chief of armed forces, Europe cannot defend itself from foreign intervention/attack.
Kudos to the Professor. Excellent article.
The The New World Order is just the Old World Order with a lot more makeup and lipstick.
Europe had a great chance in 1945 to cast off its old values which had led itself to almost total destruction. The problem is the destruction did not go far enough. There were just enough of the sclerotic old elites left to rise up from the ashes and debris and re-impose themselves on the people and voila we now have the New World Order dusted off and brought forth from the grave but it does not smell any better than the old cadaverous shell that we thought had been buried forever.
Europe has no values except sclerosis, hate (both themselves and the rest of the world and the US) repression, anti-freedom and systemic criminality.
Our ancestors left there for a good reason and I think they were right. Let Europe rot and die and move on to the rest of the world. The rest of the world is more vibrant and growing and we should cast our lot there. We have more in common with the rest of the world than Europe and we would do better to slowly but permanently sever our ties to Europe.
Their values and ways just hold us back. Let them die.
Canada is just Europe with a nearly American Accent. They should have joined us after the Revolution but they could not cut the cord to Europe. Take them for all they have but don’t admit them to our Union. They would be like the poisoned apple of the fairy tales.
Greenland would be better. More resources but no Canadiens.
Question your sanity if you buy into his nonsense. Another conspiracy theorist Plus, your Interpretation of the post 1945 world is truly warped.
You were an orderly beginning in the 60’s, as I recall from your other comments. Must have read a lot of science fiction in your free time while at work.
Anonymously10:17AM
You have no concept of history except your warped personality disorder which exhibits severe dysfunction in understanding complex concepts. Your recall is severely impaired and totally wrong, as are most of your observations. You need to get an MRI so they can find the functioning areas of your brain, which no doubt will be a strenuous exercise to find them. They might be able to inject some stem cells and grow your brain back to the level of an idiot, where you can at least feed yourself and infrequently mess on the carpet.
Sci-fi is fun but all of mine are paperbacks so I can throw them away once read. But I stress they are FICTION.
The bulk of my library is hard bound, Civil War, WW2- both sides including German and Japan and some Russian, American History and literature, English History and Literature, selected Spanish History, Middle Ages, Ancient Rome and Greece, Middle East, Chinese (since part of my family is ethnic Chinese). And such.
Oh and I was never an orderly, that was reserved for the barely educable like you.
I wonder if the Pax Europea includes defending themselves militarily without the U.S. military. Americans will not stand for defending this new Europe (again) with American blood. They better think clearly on this and realize that the correct answer to the question, “How many Frenchman does it take to defend Paris” is: “No one knows, because it has never been done (successfully) before.”
I wonder how many Americans would prefer fighting our enemies on American soil, versus fighting them on other countries’ soil and through their villages and cities like WWI and WWII?
Part of the reason for NATO was not just to defend the lucrative markets for our products over in Europe, but any wars with Soviet Russia would be fought to a conclusion in Europe – not fought to a conclusion here in America and through our civilian population after a war in Europe was wrapped up.
We “defended” Europe in WWI by finally having American infantry in battle for the last 37 weeks of that five year long war – after Perishing finally arrived in Europe as almost a beggar as far as having all the material to fight a war is concerned, and the French among the others who did much to equip our troops.
Then, not having learned how poorly isolationism works for our defense in WWI, we sat on the sidelines again during WWII for over two years – until Japan and Germany took the decision out of our hands, and we had to join in a partnership with Stalin and the Soviet Union while Pearl Harbor burned. And then at war’s end willingly gave Stalin much of Europe, countries whose free forces had been fighting that war long before we got in – right back to where we started “Not our business!”
Maybe the eye opening question would be “Would there have been a WWII if America hadn’t been filled with both admirers of Hitler and others who believed we should stay out of the war because there’s no way it would affect us?”
Or perhaps: “How many Americans does it take to fight a rearguard action across Europe in the face of Blitzkreig so the British can flee Europe and back across the Channel to Dunkirk, in order to survive to continue the war?”
Answer: “Nobody knows, because the Americans always sit on their asses until forced to get in, and it was the French that did that after joining the British to defend their allies when they were attacked by Hitler”.
After all, nobody makes joke’s about Britain fighting a losing war against Hitler right beside the French, when both came to the aid of their allies after Hitler invaded. Nor do they make jokes about the British surviving only because the French continued on, fighting to allow them the chance to flee across the channel from Dunkirk”.
We do have a common history with Paris in that the Brits burned Washington DC and sent our president and first lady fleeing into the night with whatever they could grab from the White House. Like those British in WWII, the only reason we survived to win our freedom was due to the French aiding us in our revolution.
Up to a point I don’t much care what Europe, or South America, or anywhere else does. I do care in that they’re important to both our economy as we’re exporters to the world and our national security. Whether Communist China or the hajji Caliphate, they have plans for us as well.
Let’s get one thing straight. Europe, the world, owed the USA nothing. American corporations have raped and pillaged almost every court, except China, but they’re working it.
And the American consumer will pay for it, one wat or another.
If the American people have one real enemy, its American corporations.
Anonymous 10:35AM
Much of what you say in this segment is true. As far as WW1 was concerned, the French were the Heroes. They took enormous losses and held the line all 4 years, at times quite tenuously but they held. The British helped but the heart of the defence was French. The main problem for the US was Woodrow Wilson. Would not take a stand and did virtually nothing to prepare the US for the inevitable entry into the war. All we had were soldiers and virtually all their equipment was French. We even had to use Lee Enfield rifles bored for the 30-06 American ammunition because we were so short on the American 1903 Springfield rifle (an excellent rifle but we had not enough)
WW2 is a little more complex and the US did not sit on their asses, especially in the Atlantic. Starting in 1940 the US convoyed merchant ships to the mid Atlantic and then turned them over to British and Canadien Navies. Hitler forbade his U-Boats from crossing into the western hemisphere because he did not want the US more actively engaged. In 1941 There was an undeclared war in the Atlantic between the US and Germany. The US Atlantic Fleet was actively engaged in combat and aggressive patrolling. In fact American ships had been torpedoed long before 12/7/1941. The USS Reuben James was torpedoed and sunk just weeks before Pearl Harbor.
The buildup of American Industry started long before 12/7/1941 and most of the modern battleships and Essex class Carriers were designed and started in the time frame of 1937-1942 . Same for Cruisers and Destroyers and Modern Fleet submarines.
FDR’s failing was that he thought he could charm Joseph Stalin. Churchill knew better.
FDR was almost non functional for most of the time between late 1943 and his death in 1945 due to a heart attack and worsening heart failure and was often disengaged from any decision making, which was carried on by his staff and the joint chiefs. FDR was no match for Stalin in the conferences of 1944 and 1945. Just look at his pictures in 1942-1943 and then 1945. They show a dying man. He looked worse than Joe Biden.
Europe is going to get what is coming to them by a hydra of unelected bureaucrats. If Van der Leyen manages to make herself the CIC of the European Military, country sovereignty is over. Time to ditch the EU.
It’s fine to deplore the increasing popularity of Marxism in Europe; that’s what this is after you get past the code words like “globalism”.
But here at home, professor Turley’s fellow Democrats have been the thought leaders and the spark plug for this, particularly since the election of Obama. More than that, it’s specifically Professor Turley’s fellow Democrat lawyers in elected office and the bureaucracy are the decision makers that have demanded and pushed to have these limitations and many civil rights – not just the First Amendment that he obsesses about while neglecting a similar focus on other rights like the Second and Fourth Amendments.
His fellow Democrat lawyers like Bill and Hillary Clinton, his fellow Democrat lawyers like Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
The government dog whistle code words like “disinformation”, “fascism”, etc didn’t migrate here after first becoming part of the political language over in nasty ol’ Europe. Just as the Tranny Revolution being popularized by government didn’t migrate here from Europe.
It started here, and American Democrats (and often their money) is what is continuing to drive it both here in America and over in the EU.
Professor Turley, unless you’ve renounced the Democratic Party, it’s time for you to get a grip on your party’s leaders and theologians.
In 1776 we began a self vaccination process against British titled elites. Perhaps it’s time for a booster shot.
In 1776, we were being taxed and then attacked not by “British titled elites”, but by a freely elected representative Parliament, made up of our then fellow British citizens, elected by our fellow British citizens.
King George and “British titled elites” weren’t the parliamentary government who made the decisions to oppress the Colonists in that way.
Perhaps we need to get our heads out of our asses and remember that, as we watched how our elected governments under Obama and Biden are doing similar things within our lifetimes.
Hence the need for a booster.
Anonymous 10:40 AM – correct, it was Parliament that passed the Stamp Act and the Intolerable Act . I would not agree that they were very representative but they were elected. Our Ancestors appealed to the King to give us relief from Parliament but he cast his lot with parliament which he was bound to do. The King did, however, consent to removing court cases from local courts in the the colonies and placing them in Crown courts in England. Very little justice was found there from our point of view.
The good Professor Turley says, “Speaker after speaker denounced Trump and the rise of what they called ‘autocrats’ and ‘oligarchs.’” It spread like measles. I’m amused that Western Civilization is now filled with group-think, group-speak ideology that seems unable to come up with its own words or descriptions.
Instead, a word or phrase appears in a speech or media publication, and -suddenly, it becomes the go-to word or phrase around the world, that all persons aligned with that thought or ideology conveniently revert to.
(Apparently, the false insult of “fascist” has lost its charm/effect.)
Does anyone think on his own anymore? In the United States, a single town hall with a Republican speaker suddenly turns into a raucous, disrespectful shouting match, with truly rude attendees. Then, …pathologically, town halls around the country with a Republican speaker suddenly becomes a verbal free-for-all forum for insults and disrespect, ostensibly polluted with paid disruptors and/or attendees who are neither part of that district nor the Republican Party.
AND last week I saw a photo of a town hall where the audience held up ping-pong-like PADDLES with negative feedback to the Republican speaker. Hmmm, now where do we think these copy-catting mimics got that idea??? (Hint: remember when Trump delivered his formal speech to Congress while congressional Democrats held up paddles in defiance?)
Now, town hall meetings around the country are Paddle Fests.
One Tesla vandal suddenly cloned itself into dozens of attention-seeking copycatters.
One pro-Palestinian campus protest, like mold, spread into national college events.
And If I hear the word “King” one more time…
@lin
Really: I think they get directives. This is a cabal (or regime, if you prefer); not a party or alliance of disparate parties. 🤷🏽♂️Would have been us too, had we relented in November.
James- I think Cabal is correctly spelled Soros (Sr. and Jr.) and DNC (as a subtitle)
Lin, those townhall meetings with GOP lawmakers are good indicators of just how far off their perspective on what voters want is. The easiest way to dismiss these ‘racous’ townhalls is to dismiss them as just a bunch of paid agitators. Elon and Trump are doing a lot of damage and they are not doing what the voters wanted them to do which is lower grocery prices, tame inflation, and improve the economy. None of that is happening, not fast enough and certainly not within the timeframe Trump promised.
He’s instead increasing prices and making the economy worse. His poll numbers on the economy are tanking and Trump is focusing. on trivila isues like cracking down on “illegal protests” and punishing foreign students and green card holders for exercising their free speech rights.
Republicans are starting to make the same mistakes Democrats made. Ignoring voters real concerns. Inflation and increasing prices. Moreover why hasn’t Trump closed the border? It’s still open. I thought he was all about closing “Biden’s open border”. Why hasn’t he closed it?
Lin,
Well said.