While the rest of the world has been transfixed on the horrific Hamas attacks on Israel and the hostage release saga, voters in Argentina and The Netherlands shook the political intelligentsia class to its roots last week.
Coupled with the election of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Italy in 2022, these three elections could presage a monumental shift in American elections next year ― if you want a revolution, you may get one.
The Italian, Argentine and Dutch voters did not vote for marginal change. They voted for massive, unadulterated change in national policy and leadership. Journalists worldwide looked the other way, hoping all three elections were flukes and would just “go away.”
Liberal media sources ― but I repeat myself ― characterized all three elections as “shocking far-right” victories by uneducated hordes when they did report on them. Which stands to reason ― since most of mainstream journalism is as far left as the modern Socialist Democratic Party in America today, common sense, traditional political policies based on the rule of law and traditional family and values seems “far right” to them.
Will the contagion spill over into the U.S. elections in 2024? Margaret Thatcher led a conservative revolution in 1979 which many felt presaged the Reagan Revolution of 1980 so Americans might take a cue from our Italian, Argentine and Dutch friends this time around.
Giorgia Meloni became Prime Minister of Italy in 2022. She is a pro-freedom Italian populist and nationalist who is unabashedly pro-life in heavily Catholic Italy. She was elected on a platform of strict immigration control of Italy’s borders. If there was a socialist state to dismantle, Italy was a good place to start.
On November 20, Libertarian television pundit Javier Milei easily won a runoff for president in Argentina. The first thing he did was dissolve the Department for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He has enthusiastically promised to eliminate scores of government bureaus and departments. He has vowed to “exterminate” inflation and “take a chainsaw” to the state in efforts to resuscitate a moribund economy and bring down high unemployment. Milei, like Meloni before him, is adamantly opposed to open borders and has vowed to crack down on immigration during his term.
Argentine stock markets erupted for 30%+ gains immediately after his election. Investors apparently liked what this libertarian was selling.
Three days later, voters in the Netherlands completely surprised and “shocked” the professional cognoscenti by giving populist nationalist Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party control of the Dutch parliament. Wilders, like Meloni and Milei, is committed to closing Dutch borders to any more immigration, especially by Muslims from the Middle East; withdrawing from the EU and restoring the Dutch economy.
Citizens of Italy, Argentina and the Netherlands have had enough. They have had enough of open borders. They have had enough watching crime being committed in the streets. They have had enough government telling them what to do and when to do it, especially in the post-COVID era.
The bottom line is they have lost faith in the very government which its socialist leaders “promised” would make their lives much better ― because it didn’t.
When average “normal” people see with their eyes and feel with their wallet that things are “just not right,” they take it out on the incumbent party and usually do so in harsh dramatic fashion. Average “normal” Italian, Argentine and Dutch voters took matters into their own hands and voted in massive numbers to take power away from statist and world order leaders and give it to populists who promised to do something much different.
Expect to see immigration to play a large role in the 2024 elections similar to these three countries. Average Americans are tired of watching millions of illegal immigrants flood the southern border and a flaccid response by the Biden Administration to enforce existing law. They are tired of being told biological males have to be allowed to compete against biological females in athletics; white voters are tired of being told they are racist because of the color of their skin; they don’t like seeing “Death to the Jews!” rallies in American cities and they definitely do not feel like they are better off financially than they were four years ago, as Ronald Reagan famously asked the nation in 1980.
Frustrations like these led to the “shocking” results in Italy, Argentina and the Netherlands. The United States could be next.
