Is it possible to contribute to the election campaign after it is over? That would be the ideal of many sponsors. You give money to someone you already know is a winner. No risk.
Mark Zuckenberg solved this quiz. He gave Donald Trump a million dollars for his inauguration! In other words, he made an additional contribution. He didn’t kiss the ring, he kissed the shoe. And lo and behold, he’s on the right side of it.
So I remember in 2016, a month after Trump’s election, George Soros called an anti-Trump conference and announced a strategy of resistance. But Soros is now retired, his protégé son Alex is perhaps not even his shadow, and it is confirmed that America is ruled by losers we are embarrassed for. I remind you that Jeff Bezof made a similar move to Zuckenberg. And I recall Bill Gates’ private emails released as part of a lawsuit in 2001. Evil genius? More like a schemer and a con man.
What does it take for the elite to start behaving this way?
a) accumulate enough power
b) show a determination to use it.
The French Yellow Vests did not inspire fear because they had enough determination, but there was no power behind them. Andrej Babiš, the leader of the Czech political opposition, will again have trouble convincing the metropolitan elite that he is serious enough. And it won’t be easy for him if he can’t even clean up his own party’s Institute for Politics and Society, which is still riding the ultra-liberal wave.