BY GARY MCGHEE
It’s not only Trump who dodged that bullet. His glorious victory in the US election means that we in the UK, others in Europe and indeed the whole world have too.
At every level the globalist, elitist Woke Left will now be in retreat. The Communist centralisation via the back door of the WEF, Davos and the UN will hopefully be stymied. The Overton window has shifted significantly to the centre-Right, the pendulum has swung in favour of patriotism, populism, and the Rule of Law, rather than lawyers. The ludicrous and misanthropic Net Zero 2030 agenda will be thrown in the dustbin of history where it belongs, along with the Paris Accords. The whole agenda is toast if the US, China, India et al don’t sign up, which they won’t. Milei, for instance, will now be able to Make Argentina Great Again via lucrative trade deals with the US, buoyed by Argentinian oil reserves.
Moreover, the astroturfing, top-down corporate imposition of Gender Ideology will be halted. Those dominoes are already falling as the parents of America revolt via the law courts against the illegal imposition of this ideology in their schools. There has been a swing away from the Left of racial and sexual minorities, and not least by gay men. Trump has more than doubled his support from us gay men if my networks are anything to go by. The exodus of gay men away from the metropolitan ghettos is allied to an embrace of conservatism and a dismissal of the political blackmail of the Left regarding the Right-wing homophobic bogeyman.
We’ve grown out of all that and the Left hate it because they no longer have any control over us. We recognise that the real attack on us comes from the Left supporting the ‘Transing the Gay away’ cultural Marxist agenda of Gender ideologues.
Young straight men also seem to have risen out of the torpor of the emasculations of feminism and being beaten over the head by the misandrist fictions of ‘toxic masculinity’. Trump and his acolytes like Jordan Peterson hear them and they have responded in significant numbers. All the Identity politics mumbo jumbo will hopefully be kicked out of the park and not before time.
Frank Haviland has expounded on this situation very well in The New Conservative, so I won’t dwell on it. But the Labour government is bound to clash with Trump’s administration in terms of the ideological mood music and the UK’s response to Trump vetoing divisive things like positive discrimination and special privileges for ‘protected’ groups etc.
So, let’s talk about JD Vance.
His comments about the distinction between what he calls ‘ordinary’ gay men and the dissolute weirdos of the TQ+ movement is timely and most welcome. He gets that homosexuality has nothing to do with being Trans and only exists within the abstract ideologies of Queer and Gender theory. Both have not gone beyond theory and indeed have been soundly disproved when faced with biological reality yet have been presented as fact. Vance made his career and fortune as a top corporate lawyer for billionaire gay entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. He understands and appreciates the aspirations that ordinary gay men have and the contribution we make to society. The scale of Trump’s victory was also partly because of Vance. He is being groomed to take over eventually, and rightly so. He is half Trump’s age, is easily relatable to young voters and had a great campaign. Of course, his excellent biography and the equally great film adaptation ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ was a factor in informing the public about where he came from and not least as a role model for ‘making it’ in America from humble and troubled beginnings. No fake image-making was required there.
Also, on that subject let’s talk about Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. Musk’s intervention in key swing States to ensure that the voting was above board and there was no repeat of the vote rigging of 2020 was effective and clearly a success. It also had the effect of exposing the apparent disappearance of the millions of votes that swung the election for Biden. Where did they go? This time the Trump vote was too big to rig, but serious questions should be asked about what happened in 2020. Musk’s takeover of Twitter/X is also a case in point. It bought forth calls from the Left for it to be shut down because Musk shunned political censorship on the platform. This thus exposed the Left and the Establishment as authoritarian and prepared to deny the online public wide access to information and opinion that they didn’t like.
Joe threw his support behind Trump at the eleventh hour. The man with 15 million subscribers (and counting) conducted an extensive interview with Trump which enabled his followers to get a good look at the candidate for President. It was congenial and wide-ranging. Harris’s dodging of this was a mistake, but one suspects that she would not have withstood such scrutiny and therefore placed ridiculous restrictions like insisting it was only one hour long when Rogan interviews are long-form and that his questions would be vetted beforehand. Rogan had no intentions of accommodating that. This was significant because it left voters with no real handle on what she was about and indeed was trying to hide behind spin and propaganda and vilifying Trump and blaming others for her failures in office.
Hopefully Trump and the dynamic team he’s putting together will be able to deal with the elitist factions in the Senate. He needs to channel his inner Julius Caesar. The Left predictably regard him as a tyrant but without him there would have been no rise of a populist Roman Empire. There’s also the example of Robert Walpole, our first Prime Minister and the original Country Squire. He was incarcerated in the Tower of London on trumped up charges of corruption, but this was clearly a political move orchestrated by his opponents. Sound familiar?
The Department of Government Efficiency. (DOGE). Now doesn’t that have a lovely ring to it. Wouldn’t it be great if that was replicated in the UK? The UnCivil Service cut down to size, a bonfire of the Quangos and ending the woke Grift of the Third Sector of uncharitable charities. Etcetera. We can but dream…
Gary McGhee is a semi-retired screenwriter, loving the outdoor life with his partner in the Norfolk countryside. Gary was ‘red-pilled’ before it became fashionable, and believes in liberty, freedom, modernism, and defying herd-mentalities.