I’m not interested in downplaying Trump’s role in hammering nails into the coffin of the global climate scam—but let’s be honest: the movement had already peaked by 2022, right under Biden’s watch. By 2020 it was already grotesquely overstretched, a bloated moral-luxury project floating on cheap money and political theater. Then COVID rolled in like a biblical plague and finished off what little fiscal sanity remained. Public finances across the OECD went from wobbling to outright wreckage.
And suddenly ordinary citizens were reacquainted with something they previously encountered only in textbooks or during holidays in countries with shaky currencies: inflation. Real, unpleasant, wallet-scorching inflation. People learned the elementary lesson their leaders hoped they’d never notice—money printing has consequences.
That shock poured fuel onto the opposition, especially those savvy enough to recognize the climate crusade as one of the core drivers of the economic misery. And once politicians realize that a stance—any stance—can win them an election, they don’t grow a spine; they grow a strategy. They’ll fight on principle only when principle is polling well.
What’s happening now in Europe isn’t some MAGA-exported rebellion. It’s an organic rejection of a grift that finally collided with economic reality. Trump may have given it a nudge, a little flick of encouragement, but make no mistake: the collapse was already baked in. It would have happened anyway.
https://tilakdoshi.substack.com/p/trumps-eisenhower-moment-cop30-and