“What is this? Some kind of insanity, some kind of sickness!?”

So said conservative commentator Mark Levin on his Saturday show on Fox, when talking with Ron DeSantis. Being exasperated by open borders, FBI dereliction, politicisation of the law, DEI, transgenderism, by the whole baggage of woke. He cannot figure it out. His whole demeanour is transformed into an anguished cry for the re-emergence of common sense and patriotism. Okay, that is me taking a bit of poetic licence. But only a bit. It is not far from the literal truth because as you know, you feel the same way; as do I. What is happening is a giant exercise in gaslighting or the other side is certifiably insane. Both, in fact.

English raconteur and gay man about town Quentin Crisp once said that he suspected Europeans spoke in English behind our backs. Similarly, maybe those on the left know that woke is all hooey but they prosecute their perverted agenda anyway as some tactical ploy to throw us of base.

While we are distracted and disgusted by men in frocks using women’s bathrooms and by sociopathic surgeons cutting young girls breasts off, and at the same time taking extraordinary care to avoid giving any impression of being transphobic, they are busying away entrenching their takeover of institutions. They don’t really give a flying fig about Bill becoming Jill or Jill Bill. They want political and economic power.

Powerlust drives them. Megalomaniacs, they will say anything, do anything, prosecute any pretence, however bizarre, deceptive, and destructive, in order to achieve their aim. That is where “climate change” is particularly useful.

Climate change, so-called, is allowing them to destroy reliable and ever-available energy. Once energy is in short supply and smart meters are in place, they can control who gets electricity and when. They will decide who gets to turn on the lights, the circumstances in which they may do so, and the price they will pay. China’s social credit scoring on stilts. Those spreading “misinformation” and “disinformation” will be rationed.

Who are they exactly? Not the useful idiots who reflexively vote left or green. They’re simply the means to the end. Akin to cannon fodder. We are talking about the elite. The rich guys you see in Davos. Corporates. Union leaders. Legacy media movers and shakers. Big tech. Professorial activists. Al Gore, John Kerry, Chris Bowen types. Of course there will be infighting for power and its spoils. The odd Trosky will be banished to the outer. Animal Farm is a perfect script. Just not sure where the Islamists will fit in. But despotism will suit them.

Can’t happen? Maybe. But it is mistaken to think really bad things can’t happen. That what German Jews thought in 1933. I dare say it is what fourth-century Romans thought.

Assume the worst is on the cards, for the sake of the argument. Can Trump save us? That is the only question worth asking. There is no one else. No one! Why do you think “they” hate him with extreme prejudice. All other political leaders on our side are milquetoast panty-waists in comparison. Cometh the moment they go to water. Started reading a piece by Niall Ferguson in last week’s Weekend Australian. Stopped reading instantly when he compared Boris Johnson with Trump. No one on the left is the least fearful of jolly (net-zero) Johnson. Typical of holier-than-thou commentators, Ferguson has long been anti-Trump. Think of Greg Sheridan and Paul Kelly here. Wastes of space in battling for our civilisation.