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How in the world did a man like Carney win?
Ahnaf Ibn Qais has insightful reflections on Canada's energetic populism and the recent disappointing election results. One of the world's most dangerous and authoritarian globalists won.
"The rebellion was real. The grievances were raw.
But populism offered only noise, not structure.
It demolished consensus, but failed to build a replacement.
It is now clear: what populism mistook for revolt was merely ritual.
What it saw as revolution was therapy.
The populists screamed; the system listened — & then promptly resumed.
The populist moment left no monuments.
No institutions. No ideology. No personnel.
Only memes, martyrs, & market shocks.
Their legacy was not transformation, but catharsis.
Their language was one of negation.
Their tactic: disruption without direction.
When the emotion faded, the vacuum returned.
& into that vacuum stepped Carney.
He is not loved, but he is accepted.
Not visionary, but competent.
He does not promise a better world — only a smoother one.
His election marks not a triumph of ideas, but of institutional inertia.
He is the immune system made flesh — absorbing threats, neutralizing risk, restoring order.
No need to crush the populists. They exhausted themselves.
The system didn’t win. It simply waited.
Populism’s fatal flaw wasn’t rage — it was emptiness.
Behind the slogans were no structures.
Behind the heroes, no administrators.
Carney didn’t defeat populism — he outlasted it.
He is not the future. He is the end of a sentence.
He stands not atop a new epoch, but amidst the ash of a failed revolt.
No flags. No manifestos. No exit plan.
Just risk-managed politics for a demoralized population.
He is the undertaker. And the West, embalmed in its own regulations, politely lowers itself into the ground."
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
