Supporters of bourgeois-conservative or libertarian politics have had little reason to celebrate over the past decades. One could also say that the interim balance sheet of the 21st century will go down in history as a complete failure for patriots, sovereigntists, and friends of liberty.
The sparks of hope remain largely confined to a few South American beacons. Alongside El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Argentina’s eccentric libertarian Javier Milei, the conservative politician of German descent Antonio Kast recently achieved an impressive electoral victory in Chile.
Yet with Antonio Kast’s family history, the similarities between South America’s political revolution and the land of his forefathers - Germany -+already come to an end. It is hardly far-fetched to say thatBerlin politics and the EU doctrine it dominates resemble the left-Islamist politics of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani far more than they resemble the chainsaw-wielding libertarianism of Javier Milei or the conservative momentum represented by Antonio Kast.
Kast has undoubtedly succeeded in overcoming the National Socialist ideology embraced by his father and establishing himself as a conservative-patriotic politician. In the culture war against the socialist camp, maintaining a clear distinction between patriots, sovereigntists, and libertarians on one side and the radical right on the other is indispensable. European conservatives repeatedly fail because the ideologically socialist political spectrum and its aligned media apparatus successfully blur the line between conservative-patriotic politics and outright extremism, thereby severely obstructing any conservative revival.
Kast must look upon the bizarre developments in the homeland of his ancestors with profound bewilderment.
How must this aggressive European eco-socialism appear from the perspective of a conservative South American? Perhaps as a reminder of the ugly collectivisms of the 20th century. Or perhaps South Americans perceive Europe’s political decadence as a recurring cycle of barbarism—a warning to finally overcome the socialism that held their continent down for generations.
That task may prove far more difficult than many assume. Germany’s politically and ideologically dominant EU increasingly follows an Orwellian script in frightening detail, constructing a bureaucratic surveillance state layer by layer. Pillars of bourgeois society such as the family, Christianity, private property, freedom of speech, individual mobility, and cultural life itself are all coming under mounting media and political pressure.
And at times, New York’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani appears almost like an American offshoot of this European ideological confusion.Socialist to the core, climate activist, and by no means a moderate representative of Islam, he embodies the convergence that Europe has already advanced through mass immigration and the transformation of the economy into a green command apparatus with quasi-military features: the arrival of a new socialism.
His first four months in office already read like the platform of Germany’s Left Party—with establishment approval attached: rent controls, free public transportation, universal childcare, and even the bizarre proposal of government-run grocery stores—a Yankee version of the Soviet consumer cooperative—is still on the table. Mamdani sells a world without consequences, a fantasyland in which everything is distorted into a fairy tale for those unwilling to perform or produce. Perhaps the immense wealth of New York’s upper classes has clouded his judgment, but this socialist nightmare financed through vote-buying consumes staggering amounts of money.
Mamdani is about to learn his first hard lesson. Wall Street firms, investment banks, and major funds are already preparing their escape routes. Whether Citadel, Apollo Global Management, or Wells Fargo, many are actively exploring new headquarters. Will Miami become the great beneficiary of New York’s self-destruction? The top tax rate is set to rise another 2 percent, inheritance tax exemptions are to be sharply reduced, and corporate taxes have already been raised by 4 percent. As noted before: it all feels remarkably European.
Source: ZeroHedge News
