Communists don’t need tanks anymore.
They need the Supreme Court, the universities, the media, and the bureaucracy.
Brazil just showed the playbook. Lula wins by a hair. Markets crash ~20%. A justice who used to be his lawyer extends voting after the polls close. The institutions stay locked.
Once they sink the claws in, voting them out gets almost impossible.
America is next if we keep pretending this is just normal politics.
Wake up. 🇺🇸
Communists don't give up power voluntarily.
And they obviously have no respect for our rules of fairness. They don't care – those are not their values. They only want power.
Bukele said it clearly: "If you don't impeach corrupt judges, you CANNOT reform the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms."
Congratulations to my friend @LulaOficial on his electoral victory.
Democracy and multilateralism have won in Brazil.
Europe’s partnership with Brazil is thriving.
We will remain by your side for the years to come.
Together we will keep working closely for free and open trade.
A rules-based global order.
And strong ambitions for our climate.
To understand why Western leaders all sound the same, you need to understand how a system that has captured its own institutions keeps producing elites aligned on the worst possible line.
In 2004, Klaus Schwab created the Forum of Young Global Leaders. Every year, the WEF selects a few hundred people under 40. You don't apply. You get nominated by people already inside and vetted by people already inside. Then come the annual summits, Davos, and a two-week executive program at Harvard Kennedy School built around global governance, climate, global health and "21st century leadership."
Emmanuel Macron: class of 2016, the same year he launched his presidential campaign. Gabriel Attal: listed by the WEF itself among its notable members. In 2017, at Harvard, Schwab bragged that his network "penetrates the cabinets" of governments. His words, not mine.
Now here's the mistake most critics make. They imagine a brainwashing camp. Two weeks at Harvard don't rewire anyone. The YGL program doesn't create the mindset. It certifies it.
The capture happened upstream. The formatting starts at 18. Sciences Po, ENA, Harvard, Columbia, Yale Law. Ten years of being graded by people who already hold the consensus. You learn fast that the reward doesn't go to whoever is right, but to whoever restates the room's beliefs most elegantly. Every essay, every oral exam, every internship in a ministry or a consulting firm teaches the same lesson: the frame is given, your job is to optimize inside it.
Obama never went through YGL. He didn't need to. Columbia, Harvard Law, president of the Law Review. Same factory, American edition.
So by the time the WEF calls, the product is finished. The program just adds the final layer: flattery. You're told you're one of the few people under 40 who will shape the world. You spend your summers with ministers, CEOs, royals and Nobel laureates who all agree with each other. Imagine what that does to a 35-year-old ego.
That's the profile it produces. Very high verbal intelligence, very low dissent. Brilliant at defending the frame, never trained to question it. And a narcissism fed by a network that confirms, year after year, that you belong to the elect. Combine the two and you get leaders who are never punished for being wrong, as long as they're wrong together.
Immigration is the perfect test case. Obama, Macron, Attal can tighten a law, announce deportation numbers, harden their tone before an election. Obama deported more people than any president before him. But listen to how they talk about it. For them, immigration is never a civilizational question. It's a flow to manage, a labor shortage to fill, a demographic curve to correct, a moral duty to perform. Whether a nation has the right to remain itself never even enters the frame. Not because they've answered the question. Because their education taught them it isn't a legitimate one.
That's why the voter who says "my town has changed and I'm worried" gets a lecture instead of an answer. The leader isn't even lying to him. It's worse: he genuinely cannot see what the voter sees. Twenty years of formatting taught him that this perception is a bias to correct, not a reality to address.
That's the real problem with captured institutions. Not a secret plot. A monoculture. Same schools, same summits, same Davos panels, same vocabulary from Paris to Ottawa to Washington. When every leader is selected by the consensus and rewarded by the consensus, the consensus stops being tested against reality.
And a ruling class that never gets confronted with reality ends up governing a country that only exists in its own slide decks.
Before you vote, ask one question about every candidate: who formatted them, and who do they still need to impress?
What Lula and the Left did in Brazil, the Democratic Party will inevitably do in America.
They appointed their own partisan hacks to the bench in as many seats as possible, then appealed to the legitimacy of the courts even as they dismantled any semblance of impartiality. And once they had control of the courts, they used them to install a soft dictatorship that had the veneer of democratic legitimacy.
Any attempt to overturn this will now, ironically, be called an illegal coup. It's genius if you think about it. Abuse the constitutional order so thoroughly that your enemies' only remaining options to fix it are, by definition, outside the bounds of normal constitutional law.
This is exactly what the Democrats plan to do in America once they inevitably have the votes to pack the Supreme Court.