The Emerging New World Order

By Charlie Johnston

The candidate whose campaign I was managing, Kat Wall, was defeated in her bid to oust a liberal Republican incumbent on Tuesday, March 3.  In the process, though, she helped spark and add to a vitally important reform movement in Texas.

Two very bright spots happened on that Tuesday night.

 My old family friend, Don Huffines, won his bid for comptroller of Texas. The Comptroller of Texas is, by far, the most powerful comptroller in any state I have been involved in. The Texas Comptroller does not just count how the state’s money is spent; he has a big role in deciding how it is spent or whether it can be spent at all. Four years ago, Huffines only got 12% in a Republican primary for governor. That was deeply disappointing for him. But he established his bona fides as the figure most committed to guarding the taxpayers’ money. I thought – and told him and his wife then – that this would serve him very well going forward. This time the Republican establishment had the long knives out for him. But all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not stop him. Huffines won against two other opponents with 58% of the vote. He is a serious and committed reformer. I personally think he is the man most likely to become Texas Governor in four years.

The execrable Congressman Dan Crenshaw was defeated by actual conservative State Representative Steve Toth. Crenshaw was the poster boy for the deception in Texas politics. He campaigned and won as a conservative in 2018. As time went on he became an ill-tempered liberal who still claimed to be a conservative. He has long been contemptuously called “Eyepatch McCain” by conservatives.

In other states, if I am looking at a liberal group, they make it obvious. In Texas, if a group wants to mutilate childrens’ genitals, push DEI and transgender ideology, and tax everything that moves, they call themselves things like the Texas Defense Fund or the Lone Star Conservative Action PAC. This is how a genuinely conservative state gets saddled with a genuinely purple legislature. The Democrats here are almost as loony as everywhere else in the country. The Republican establishment is much more insidious. They talk conservative to beguile the folksies, but are only focused on jobs, contracts, and money for themselves – and getting more.

I liken the situation of Texas to that of Detroit in the mid and late ‘60s. It may be hard for younger folks to believe, but at that time it was one of the best run, most prosperous cities in the country. Officials there started justifying all manner of stupid policy choices and enriching themselves at the expense of citizens by proclaiming, “Hey, we’re Detroit, Nothing can ever go wrong here.” By 1972, Detroit had become a hellhole and went down from there. Last session, the Texas legislature increased state spending by over 40 percent. It ignored critical, longstanding infrastructure needs, including basic water availability, while sending $2.5 BILLION in subsidies to Hollywood companies. Not tax abatements, but actual subsidies. It also spent $4.2 BILLION on the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment or BEAD, program. This was a program started with $42 billion of federal money in 2023 by the Biden Adminizstration, ostensibly to hook up underserved communities to broadband internet. Three years later, not a single person has been actually hooked up to the internet through the program. Makes for a great slush fund for politicians, though.

If Texas actually fell, we would not have enough oomph to stop the malignant authoritarian takeover modern Democrats are so determined to have. We need a genuinely strong Texas rather than an apparently strong one to fortify America. We need a genuinely strong America to rescue, reclaim, and re-cultivate Western Culture.

I am now a dual resident of Texas and Colorado and am collaborating with the reform elements in the state to make Texas red, for real. My former candidate is committed to developing real answers to real problems – and I will have the pleasure of helping. Don’t get me wrong. I am working now to re-establish balance in my life after the intense, frenzied, all-in effort of a hotly contested campaign. I will be giving talks again and devoting serious time to CORAC needs and goals that had been put on the back burner for a time. I have just added another key priority to my plate. All are designed to spark a revival of genuine faith, committed to family, community, and freedom.

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When fundamental paradigms shift, both analysis and assessment get very difficult. Back in the day, one of the gifts I brought to the political table among colleagues was that based on what they said and what they did, I could predict what opponents and the opposing party were going to do with eerie precision. That started degrading during Bill Clinton’s term and was largely lost after the first year of Barack Obama’s term.

People and entities use smokescreens and misdirection to try to camouflage their fundamental goals and strategy. Given consistent predicates in speech and action, inductive reasoning allows one to cut through the smokescreens and see a likely course that is to follow. Actions and speech portend certain ends if you can cut through the camouflage. Inductive reasoning does not give certainty to analysis, but it gives a very high degree of accuracy, depending on the skill of the practitioner.

Again, back in the day, the Democratic Party was a rational actor. I often thought it was errant, but it was understandable and its goals could be discerned along with the strategies and tactics it would use to get there. I have always worked from the standpoint of “first things:” when you strip away all the fluff and stuff, what remains – and what does it signify?

I didn’t lose my analytical prowess. Rather, beginning with Clinton the rational basis for policy choices started fraying. It was obliterated by Obama. So I was caught for a time using old predicates and assumptions that no longer applied. The Democrats became, increasingly, an anti-rational party. Now, most of the major things they do have a profoundly nihilistic root. When analyzing them, I regard them as a party of appetites rather than a party of ideas. All political parties want power – and the balance between the will to power and the will to service lends tension and drama to events. If the mix is healthy, it also lends meaning to what the political actors try to achieve. Institutionally, the Democrats have stripped meaning from the equation. All they want is power – and everything they do is designed to segment the electorate in manners to achieve that. All their pronouncements, their faux compassion, their false accusations, their efforts to weaponize law and the justice system as mere partisan tools for leverage are designed to gain and hold power for power’s sake. Having rejected any belief in or commitment to a power greater than themselves, power is their only source of meaning, an impoverished and bankrupt blend of self-actualization and validation. As angry as I get at the modern left, I pity them more. They have put themselves in a lose-lose proposition. When they lose, they are frustrated and filled with rage. When they prevail, they are frustrated and filled with rage that people and things do not develop as they thought and demand – and they frantically twist themselves into knots trying to transmogrify obvious failure into a bizarre definition of success. They are like the kid who stumbles over his own feet and proclaims, “I meant to do that.”

Wed to this intellectual train to nowhere is a farcically grotesque series of “beliefs” that deny human nature, human history, and reality, itself. Some of the proponents actually believe them, but the majority just use them as a wedge against faith, family, and freedom. Nihilism in action. These are not your father’s Democrats in the same way that a neutron bomb is not your father’s Oldsmobile. The left has become a malignant, Monty Pythonesque parody of political philosophy.

In a future piece I will write about the upcoming midterms. It is not, primarily, a referendum on either Republicans or Democrats. Rather, it is a test of whether we, as a people, retain the political sophistication, intellectual rigor, and resolve to see that a nation so conceived and so dedicated as ours in can long endure. Privately, I think of it as the Gettysburg election.

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We are in the midst of the biggest, quickest, global paradigm shift in world history. There is a quickly emerging new world order (though it is not the one the left and the globalists were hoping for). Even more astonishingly, a single figure, Donald Trump, has conceived and is decisively and successfully forging this blossoming order in real time before our very eyes.

The center of gravity for individual liberty, opportunity, and collective security is shifting away from the cultural west (the US and Europe) to the Western Hemisphere. Globalism is being supplanted by a healthy, vibrant nationalism that encourages each nation to use its strength to be the best version of itself while collaborating positively with its neighbors. It started with the simple slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Despite leftist complaints, it was never xenophobic or an attempt at rank triumphalism. From the start, Trump encouraged allies to do their own version (Make Argentina Great Again, Make Italy Great Again, Make Japan Great Again). It has always been about preserving each nation’s culture while forging strong alliances among them based on the commitment to common values on the dignity of the human person, his proper autonomy, and the need for healthy, productive communities that offer people opportunity, order, and transcendently overt faith.

The globalists imagined a vast garden with only one type of flower – and the suppression and punishment of any who dissented. This was exemplified in the execrable Klaus Schwab’s proclamation that, “You will own nothing and you will be happy!” from his former perch as head of the now largely and increasingly irrelevant World Economic Forum. They demanded uniformity in submission to their idiosyncratic vision of the good – and called it “diversity.” But God likes to have lots of distinctive flowers in His garden. He does not want to force a daisy to try to be a feeble imitation of a rose, but to be a robust, distinctive daisy – in the same garden with the roses…and tulips…and orchids. Ironic that the left insisted on uniformity while falsely calling it diversity and Trump is now encouraging substantive diversity among the nations, united in service to a common, moral foundation.

In rearranging the global board, Trump is systematically tackling chronic problems and threats to the peace of nations. For five decades Iran has been the greatest state sponsor of terror in the world. It is – and will be – no longer. In its aspirations to be the single, Godless hegemon of the world, China has been the greatest threat to world stability and peace in the world. Every action Trump takes weakens China, which is being reduced to a paper dragon. It is being denied the energy it needs to hope to project power. The action in Iran revealed the uselessness of much of its “sophisticated” military technology. The Islamic Regime was protected almost exclusively by Chinese anti-aircraft defense systems – which the American military cut through like paper. Iran would have been better off using slingshots: equally ineffective against American military power but much less expensive. China’s economy is increasingly being exposed as the Potemkin Village it has long been. Just two years ago, China was plotting to be the dominant force in the world. Now its regime is desperately trying to survive. The CCP has lost the “mandate of Heaven” and is in serious danger of toppling.

The post-World War II order is rapidly being shed like the old, dead skin of a moulting lizard. Only the trappings of its 80-year-reign remain. We are not going back to some previous world system of order. That’s not how things work. Nineteenth century America was a regional, second-tier power. It emerged as a global power in World War I. The period between WWI and WWII was a period of transition. WWII cemented America as the single most dominant power on the globe – and the leader of the community of nations which constituted western civilization. With most of Europe deeply enfeebled after WWII, the United States undertook to take the lead in rebuilding it – and effectively subsidizing it while it healed. That was a noble endeavor.

But it devolved into the global equivalent of a Somali Daycare scam. When your minor children are economically dependent on you and you direct their course, that is healthy and nurturing. When your 20-somethings do the same thing, that is a destructive co-dependency. The subsidizing of those nations broken in WWII should have ended sometime late in the Eisenhower or early in the Kennedy administration. Instead, those nations we intended to help get back on their feet continued their dependency on us even as they sought to direct our course. It had to end. Reagan was the last really successful president of the old world order. Between him and Trump 47 it has been a period of transition away from the old and toward whatever would come next. We have exited the old world order, much to the howls and complaints of those who had gamed and played us for so long. We still can’t see the precise contours of the new – but the scaffolding is visible as it is under construction in real time.

As I noted in the previous segment, when a major paradigm shift comes, good analysis gets very difficult for a time. That is largely because otherwise good analysts are still using old assumptions and predicates that no longer apply.

Our reader, Usnlt76, is a man I much respect. I have met with him before, even went to a baseball game with him. He knows military procedure and strategy. In the comments section of my last piece he raised several serious questions about our war with the Iranian mullahs. I disagree with his conclusions – but I think he came to them because he has embedded many old assumptions that no longer apply into his thinking.

First, regime change does not mean the same thing to Trump as it has meant to the last 80 years’ worth of American leaders. Trump will act to defang or eliminate dangerously hostile regimes, but he is not interested in occupying the foreign lands affected or installing a puppet leader beholden to the US. Rather, he seeks to liberate captive people from regimes actively trying to do us damage and only dominating their internal systems long enough for the native people to make a free choice. The new leadership of those nations who have a regime toppled is the nation’s problem and prerogative, not ours. It comes after a decisive showing of how we respond to regimes that try to harm Americans or seriously harm American interests. That is a powerful incentive for whatever leadership the people of the nation choose to be neighborly, even while retaining their autonomy and moral agency. The only refinery we destroyed in Iran was primarily a fuel and ammunition depot for the use of the regime. We have not touched Kharg Island, Iran’s major oil export terminal. We may seize control of it for a time until new leadership in Iran establishes stability. But we will not keep it, anymore than we did Venezuela’s. Instead, Venezuela is blossoming anew and its oil capacity is being used to help rebuild the country and its economy. Contrary to what all the “experts” predicted, Venezuelan oil exports have nearly doubled in the couple of months since we arrested Maduros. I expect the same thing to happen in Iran.

Under Trump, regime change is not a situation in which the US controls everything into the foreseeable future – a practice that only compounded our problems and our enemies, sprouting the weeds of “forever” wars. Trump will only exert control or influence long enough for a local structure to emerge – and will only act against it if it acts against our interests. Meantime, he has prepared for most contingencies that might arise and acts quickly and decisively to quash them. Early this week, the left (and much of the right) was in a panic about spiking oil prices. They did not spike because Iran was able to close the strait of Hormuz; they spiked because Lloyd’s of London announced it would not issue any maritime insurance to ships transiting those straits. That completely shut down traffic in the straits for a day. But Trump responded fine, if you won’t insure them the United States will. Lo and behold, the very next day Lloyd’s decided it would work with the US to insure maritime traffic in the straits after all. It did not want to risk its 400-year-old dominance of maritime insurance. The old assumptions are dead. Analysis must seek to recognize the contours of the new rather than trying to superimpose old predicates that no longer apply.

While at a gas station Monday, the young woman at the pump next to me expressed dismay at the price spike. I chuckled and told her that these terrible gas prices were still 40 cents lower than what I paid for most of the Biden administration – which the media said was a wonderful thing. And I told her not to worry – that the prices we were paying that day would be the worst of the week. They would almost immediately start coming back down. And so it has happened.

I take much satisfaction in seeing specifics I had predicted from what I believe to be supernatural inspiration emerging from the fog of current events. Of course, the central premise of what I had predicted was that a great storm was coming upon the world; that it was a storm of renewal, not of destruction; and that what it would most resemble would be a global civil war fought on cultural lines. A decade ago, many were upset because what I spoke of was so unimaginable and frightening that they considered it irresponsible and alarmist of me to say it. Now it has clearly come to pass. The only thing anyone doubts anymore is whether it is for renewal or for destruction. Now the main people upset with me are those who want to see prophecy as a form of fireworks show – constant stimulation with ever new bursts. It’s just a very old form of engagement trolling.  I said what I had to say and that was sufficient. I have NO interest in tickling peoples’ ears with hair-raising tales of how the Antichrist is right around the corner (a consistent theme of dime store prophets for 2,000 years. Eventually it will be right – but not yet) or keeping people thrilled with frightening details about how terrible things are going to be and how those other impious folks we don’t like are going to get it while we stay safely protected like babes in their Fathers arms. It completely ignores God’s command that we are to be His instruments, His hands and feet as St. Teresa of Avila put it, on this earth. We are to go forth and call people back to God effectively, risking grave danger in this life to help accomplish our Father’s will. Though I always knew it would come as the Storm started to end, it dismays me to watch in real time as people I have respected get progressively more unhinged.

So what are the things I have spoken consistently of since before I went public as indicators that the Storm has gone into resolution phase? Just four things I want to mention now:

• That Islam would fall far more quickly and easily than anyone imagined once we in America took it seriously and confronted it boldly. But it would continue to spread its terror and violence until we did. Trump takes it seriously and is confronting it – and most all of the Middle Eastern Arab countries are making common cause with America and Israel to confront Iran. (I wish some of our erstwhile “conservatives” were doing a smidgen of what, say, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are doing to stop Jihadist terror).
• That after it was defanged, Jihadist Islam would reconstitute in Europe, from which the final battle over it would be fought. I was partially errant about this. Islam started reconstituting in Europe well before it was confronted in the Middle East.
• That China, driven by the Chinese Communist Party, was the devil’s main tool in these times…that it would have to be confronted and subdued before we could reconstitute the faith and face of the world. It is now happening in real time because of Trump’s boldness.
• That the Storm would not be fully dissipated until Russia and the US were the closest of allies, working to restore order in the world and to unite the eastern and western wings of Christianity. That was blocked in Trump’s first term by the pernicious Russian collusion hoax, but it is slowly emerging as reality now. I think – but do not know – that much of Europe will fall completely to Jihadi Islam…and in the end, the US and Russia will combine to liberate it and make the Jihadi threat a matter of receding history.

I am dismayed at the number of “conservatives” who are ready to run for the hills as soon as it gets even a little tough or real risk is involved. I am also gratified to see it, for it reveals to all of us who we can count on and which people are just pompous blowhards. Most of all I am delighted to see in ongoing world events the contours of the world as I have seen it progressing for most of my life. We are, by no means, out of the woods yet – but we are on our way out rather than on our way in now. The emerging new world order will have some serious birthing pains before it is finished…certainly a lot more serious than a couple day spike in gas prices as the cost of ending a half century old problem. But for those who watch with eyes that see more than the conventional same old, same old, this clearly is NOT the end. It is, in fact, the beginning of a new beginning. Meditate on the Ascension to give you deeper insight into where we are headed.

 

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