In his year-end review, Western Standard publisher Derek Fildebrandt celebrated a resurgent conservatism he called the "new right" that is reshaping politics and culture throughout the world.
2025 will be the Year of the New Right | Western Standard | Derek Fildebrandt:
"In Italy, Giorgia Meloni led her ironically named Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party to become that country's first woman prime minister. She is the first national leader of Europe's new right to take power in a major country.
"German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's leftist coalition has fallen, and that country will have an election in February.... Elections in several eastern German states saw major gains and even outright victories for the Alternative für Deutschland, that currently sits in second place nationally....
"Javier Milei ran an (awesomely) insane libertarian insurgency against Argentina's kleptocratic establishment, becoming president in 2023 with a slogan of "Viva la libertad, carajo!", which translates as "Long live freedom, dammit!" He led a veritable revolution in that banana republic and made a remarkable turnaround in a breathtakingly short period of time.
"The UK saw Keir Starmer's Labour Party form a majority government.... But the Labour vote didn't increase much; it was more that the rightist vote split between the Conservatives and Nigel Farage's upstart Reform Party. The Labour government's popularity fell off a cliff almost immediately after taking power.... Britain still has more than three more years of Labour to endure, but Reform is now effectively tied with them and the Tories in a three-way race....
"Which brings me ... to Canada. Justin Trudeau has so thoroughly outstayed his welcome that the Liberals face electoral obliteration. Some projections even have them coming in fourth place, should current polling hold. Pierre Poilievre stands to potentially form the largest majority government in Canadian history with a new right coalition. What do I mean by 'new right'?... I'd broadly outline it as a working and middle-class, nationalist and anti-establishment coalition. It is generally free-market, but less doctrinally committed to it [than] Reaganite conservatism....
"2024 was the year that the tide of the culture war turned. Peaking with the madness of Black Lives Matter racialism in 2020 and gender ideology run amuck, 2024 saw the fear that held together the false social consensus of 'wokeism' crumble spectacularly. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) regimes in major corporations are dropping like flies....
"Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter in 2022 was perhaps the most important ingredient, allowing people to speak freely on the transformed X platform without fear of censorship. Almost as important was the radical social upheaval and loss in faith of institutions that came from lockdowns and mandates during the COVID-19 witch hunt that 'red-pilled' many normies into anti-establishment politics.... The economic and fiscal fallout from government policies during the COVID-19 era is still acutely felt.... Inflationary deficit spending by governments has driven up the cost of almost everything. Green-fad policies have added to it and are felt by many to be a 'luxury belief,' especially for young people who are realizing that they may never own a home until their parents die.
"The cross-partisan immigration consensus across the West has entirely collapsed.... Where only an (actual) 'small fringe minority' were vocally opposed to mass migration just four years ago, there is now a broad consensus that it's time to crack down.
"Faith in the legacy media has evaporated in many countries, exacerbated by the now self-evident lies that they parroted from governments during the COVID-19 years. Canada's Liberal government has managed to regulate and license the Canadian press into quasi-government employees in an effort to prop up the legacy media.... But try as Trudeau might, it has only slowed the inevitable. When Poilievre takes power sometime in 2025, he promises to defund the (English) CBC and abolish the media subsidies and regulations. This would trigger an overnight apocalypse of the remnants of the Canadian legacy media and allow fertile soil for the independent media to resume its inevitable flowering"
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