Hope for the Western World in Crisis

This year, throughout the Western world, hard-working people made their voices heard and put their trust in the Right. New political parties were forged: in the UK, the Right-wing Reform Party won 4 million votes and gained 100,000 members; in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders helped to form an historically Right-wing government; and Italy, Sweden, Austria, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Germany have all seen the popularity of patriotic conservative parties rise, especially among the young. Trump once again defied expectations – you would think people knew to expect the unexpected! – and won the popular vote by a healthy margin. Critics of gender ideology, shunned for years, have seen their work pay off: puberty blockers are now banned in the UK and governors in the USA are working to ban federal funding for transgender surgeries and continuing their advocacy for children’s safety apace.