I write to you from snowcapped Switzerland, where every January the World Economic Forum descends on Davos like a billionaire migration pattern. This is the annual gathering where self-important elites, the politicians they bankroll, and their most devoted groupies meet to congratulate themselves. Imagine the Oscars, but colder, smugger, and with more lectures about why you need to change your lifestyle—while they fly in on private jets.
Until last year, this alpine ritual was presided over by Klaus Martin Schwab, the German engineer who founded the WEF and ruled it for 55 years as chairman, high priest, and ringmaster. Schwab’s annual moment in the spotlight featured a level of self-satisfaction that would make a Bond villain blush. But even globalists eventually age out. After a series of accusations involving a “hostile workplace environment” and “improper use of an ATM,” Schwab’s reign came to an abrupt end—efficiently dispatched, one might say, like Trump removing a troublesome dictator without endless hand-wringing.
Stepping into the co-chair roles were exactly the kinds of figures you’d expect: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who manages roughly $14 trillion in assets, and André Hoffman, vice-chairman of Roche Holding AG, the world’s largest family-owned pharmaceutical company. If you were trying to confirm every stereotype about Davos in one move, congratulations—you nailed it.
For all its lofty pretensions—dozens of heads of state, hundreds of CEOs, and more billionaires than common sense—the WEF functions less like a world government and more like a glorified homeowners association. Except instead of nagging you about lawn height or recycling bins, this HOA lectures you about your carbon footprint, why borders are outdated, and why eating bugs is actually “progress.” It’s a global HOA from hell, populated by people with planetary ambitions and egos to match.
WEF insiders are intoxicated by what philosopher Karl Popper once called “the spell of Plato”—the idea that enlightened elites should rule the masses for their own good. In true Platonic fashion, WEFers believe they have a higher calling. As Biden climate czar John Kerry put it, their mission is “extraterrestrial.” Notice the wording—no God, just self-appointed saviors. Tyranny has a way of following that logic.
This worldview directly clashes with the American one. The Declaration of Independence declares that rights are self-evident, given by a Creator, and that all men are created equal. The WEF disagrees on every point. To them, truth is whatever Davos decides this year. There is no Creator. People are not equal—Kerry himself referred to WEF insiders as a “select group of human beings.” And rights? Those are privileges, adjustable at the whim of unelected global planners.
This is the danger of an organization that answers to no voters and yet believes it should manage the lives of billions. Leftists don’t just think about their own day; they wake up thinking about your day, too.
To understand the WEF, you have to understand Schwab. Born in Nazi Germany in 1938, he grew up amid ideologies—fascism and communism alike—that treated the individual as expendable and the state as supreme. The 20th century’s obsession with “progress” produced massive state projects and collectivist thinking, all rooted in the idea that elites could reshape humanity itself. Schwab absorbed this mindset fully, famously declaring in 2022, “Zee futcha is built by us!” Even without him at the helm, that mentality remains deeply embedded at Davos.
