Tea at Trianon: Will 2026 Undo It All?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, November 3, 2025

Will 2026 Undo It All?

From Forbidden.News:

I’m Susan Kokinda. I’ve been fighting to revive the real American economics since the 1970s. But I’ve seen how British economics, free trade, globalism, environmentalism have spread like an infection and it’s almost killed us – until Donald Trump came along and started to administer the cure. So if this sounds like your kind of fight, please hit the like and share buttons so we can spread our reach on YouTube.
Today, I’m going to show you why Trump’s biggest threat isn’t Beijing or Moscow. It’s in the US among Republicans who don’t understand his revolution – or worse, oppose it. And second, I’ll reveal exactly what Trump did in Asia that has the British in full panic mode and how that is the key to victory.
So let me start with an uncomfortable truth: Americans do love Trump’s economic populism, but they don’t associate it with the Republican Party. And I think you can figure out what that means for 2026.
A recent Rasmussen poll exposed this dangerous gap. Here’s the question they asked people. Economic populism is a political and economic approach that emphasizes growth and income distribution, often opposing the perceived elites in favor of the interests of the common people. Do you agree or disagree that America needs more economic populism?
The result, 58% said “yes”. And take note, that’s to more economic populism. And 46% called Trump’s economic performance “good” or “excellent”.
In other words, he’s delivering. But here’s the problem. When asked which party will deliver economic populism, 46% said the Democrats. That’s the blue bar. And only 26% said Republicans. That’s the red bar in the middle. (Read more.)