We are entering a time of change in a world where populists such as Donald Trump are on the rise. They cannot fathom what is happening in our world today.
Yet this has been a simmering condition for decades as the general populace take umbrage at the direction their countries are going under the leadership of their elites.
There were populist advances around 15 years ago when old style conservatives and nationalists linked with workers, forging an alliance known as populism.
Their progress has been hindered by tactics of the elites and although there have been some breakthroughs, this was rather limited.
But ever since the European elections and the French elections in mid-2024, the people of Europe have begun to ignore the oppressive elites and their media arm. Instead, they are seeing that they are being both deceived and misled down the path of globalisation and wokeism. If followed to its logical conclusion, the West will be completely gone and together with it the distinct European nations and the family unit too. That is what is in store for them and more and more are becoming aware of this danger.
Thus, the rise of populists.
Push-back Against the Far Left
In recent times, populists broke through and won in Italy, but are hamstrung at the moment by their own liberal court system and by the huge debts owed to the euro banks.
In Hungary and the Czech Republic, the populists are in government, however they lost power in Poland. In France and Germany, they are huge, but the constant lawfare and media juggernaut attacks upon them can be labelled as unfair and filled with misinformation. Le Pen’s National Rally in France, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in Germany, the Freedom Party in Austria, Brothers of Italy and Farage’s Reform Party in the United Kingdom have all been labelled as “far right.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
The policies and views of these groups and their parties are very centrist and, in some cases, even centre-left. They differ little from the stances of leaders such as Churchill, Adenauer, de Gaulle, Menzies, Eisenhower, Reagan, Thatcher and such like.
This informs us that the far left has gained the ascendancy since the 1990s and have made the erroneous claim that they occupy the centre of the political spectrum. However, their policies are identical to what the radical neo-Marxists have been promoting for decades. The true political spectrum is for these elites to be labelled “far left,” the populists as centrists and centre-right while the true “far right” should be reserved for fascists and Nazis.
It is in this historical and political context that we have witnessed the rise of Trump and Vance –– American populists and nationalists. Their views are very similar to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt (in particular), Calvin Coolidge and even Ronald Reagan. Whatever differences there might be between them are minor in comparison to their views on patriotism, American exceptionalism and conservative family values.
Of course, Trump has to come down harder than President Reagan had to on various issues affecting the American way of life and foreign policy. “Why?” you might ask. It is because America’s decline is much worse and more serious today than in Reagan’s day. In those days, the Atlantic Alliance was still strong because they were closer ideologically and both sides of the Atlantic were buffeted by a common enemy –– the Soviet Union.
Both sides were relatively socially conservative and their demographic changes were steady but minimal by the 1980s and into the 1990s.
However, in the three decades since then, the Left have consolidated their gains and gradually been oppressing their opponents in not so subtle ways known as “cancel culture” and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies.
President Trump has begun to roll back DEI programs at the federal level. These social engineering programs have been going on under different headings since the 1970s but have grown more and more toxic and disgusting.
It remains to be seen as to what can or will be done about restoring public prayers in schools, gay marriage, pornography, legalised prostitution, abortion, euthanasia and so on. There is much to be done to clean up America at both federal and state levels.
In addition to these social evils, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Trump administration wants to take back America’s place as world leader, rather than sinking into the “one among many” strategy of the globalists. They want a powerful America which is respected on the world stage. Not just respected, but followed in some basic doctrines to restore freedoms, family values and nationhood. In other words, Western civilisation.
Manifest Destiny
Long eschewed and undermined by the likes of Presidents Carter, Clinton, Obama and Biden, many Americans do see America as possessing a God-given mission for world order.
In his book Chosen People: The Big Idea That Shapes England and America, Clifford Longley poses answers to the query, “What accounts for the frequent solidarity between the British and Americans?” Furthermore, he ponders on what lies ahead for these twin powers. He proposes that both nations possess a divinely ordained sense of distinct purpose. The early settlers in America viewed themselves as akin to the Israelites of the Old Testament, believing themselves to be a chosen people of God. This notion of election has significantly influenced and fortified their national identities, albeit at a price, a paradox that Longley’s book seeks to examine.
Both Donald Trump and James Vance are descendants of the basic, core ethnic stock that considers itself as “chosen” with a special destiny –– that America obviously occupies a place among the nations that is special. A term akin to “manifest destiny” is “American and British exceptionalism,” which translates to these nations occupying a unique place on the world stage.
Trump’s father’s lineage is from the far west of Germany near France and, as with millions of Germans who migrated to America in the nineteenth century, many or most were of that stock. This means that many or most were descendants of Joseph –– Israelites –– people who preferred the freedoms of America to the rigidity of the other Germans and especially Bismarck.
Trump’s mother is of Scottish heritage and it is due to her influence that Trump respects the British Royals so much. Vance is of Scots-Irish descent.
Longley notes: “The first settlers to go to America from England were Protestants. They took with them the conviction that God had a unique role for England in world history. England was to be the site of the New Jerusalem, and the English stood in the steps of the ancient Israelites as God’s instrument, his Chosen People. The Old Testament was not just their guide to morality. It was God’s side of the bargain…”
Why is this so? Could it be that the Anglo-Keltic peoples are direct, genetic descendants of ancient Israel and are fulfilling (albeit clumsily) their prophesied and promised roles? We can find this prophesied in Genesis 49, Deuteronomy 33 and Judges 5. Notice a prophecy about the descendants of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) now dwelling in North America, the United Kingdom, Australasia and many more scattered around the globe:
“A firstborn bull –– he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.” (Deuteronomy 33:17, ESV)
The prophet Micah adds to our knowledge of this end-time prophesied military might:
“And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
“Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.” (Micah 5:8-9, ESV. Compare 4:13; Gen. 49:9; Deuteronomy 32:9; Isaiah 14:1; 41:15-16).
The rest of the chapter discusses Israel’s decline sometime after this pinnacle military pre-eminence.
The prophet Zechariah prophesies similarly:
“They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.” (10:5, ESV)
The decline of the House of Israel seems to be like something that follows a leading stock market share in decline, slowly but gradually, inevitably heading toward collapse and wipe-out. During the decline there are times of revival and we have seen that under Presidents Nixon and Reagan. Are we witnessing that again under President Trump? How long will this military and economic upturn last? Will a successor after Trump continue the revival for a further four or eight years after the end of his Presidency?
As world leader again, adherents to the view that America possesses “Manifest Destiny” believe that America has the Divine right and duty to be world leader and nothing must stand in their way.
Instead of overtly relying on alliances with “lovers,” their plan is to be world leader, with the other nations following.
They may not know it, but this is the House of Israel fulfilling its duty. This side of the Millennium Israel is clumsy and makes mistakes, yet it seems to be acting out its role that will be completed in a much better way during the Millennium under Christ, the Messiah.
Nudging Europe
One of the most articulate yet corrective speeches made in recent times was by James D. Vance, American Vice President, to the Munich Security Conference on 14 February, 2025.
He made no qualms that Europe is slipping further and further to the authoritarian left and to be considered “West” it must change course. From this author’s observation, he is urging them to return to the hey-days of the 1980s.
Writing in The Australian, Nick Cater wrote that, “Vance’s speech would have been uncontroversial had it been printed as an article in the National Review. Yet Europe’s oligarchs are ill-prepared for such insubordination. They attend conferences such as this one to have their egos stroked, not to listen to home truths from a self-confessed hillbilly.” (“JD Vance’s home truths too hot to handle for Euro elite,” The Australian, 17 February, 2025).
Unless Germany, France, Spain and others heed his admonition, Europe will be subsumed into a globalist mess. Trump and Vance are merely undertaking their Israelitish duties by admonishing them.
But will Europe listen? They may learn from American leadership and change course, but this will probably only be done if the current ruling parties are reformed, or form a coalition with populist parties, or the populists gain power and aggressively take the proverbial “bull by the horns.” This will be a positive and beneficial moment for Europe.
However, and this is something to note, there may be events such as an economic collapse or other world-shaking events which may include a clash between America and China that may force Europe to turn to the true “far right.” But today’s populist parties are anything but “far right.”
Europe’s Eventual Turn to the “Far Right”
Strangely, many Christians and even a church leader here and there have expressed the view that the media is correct and parties such as the AfD and others named above are “far right” or fascist. The same Christians are disgusted by the media’s fake news and disinformation campaigns. So why do they believe the media on the perspective of labelling centrist parties and their leaders as “far right?”
It must be human nature. It seems that every time there is a major drought, terrible events in the Middle East, a new Pope and such like, they believe that “the end is nigh.”
We are indeed in the end times, but that does not mean that the Great Tribulation is upon us just yet! As I keep on saying to people, “We cannot fast forward prophecy. It will happen when it happens.” Of course, let us watch world events in the light of Bible prophecy, but we must not get ahead of ourselves.
And so it is with the rise of “populists” in Europe. In the first instance, they are nowhere fascist or Nazi and they either want out of the European Union or wish to transform it. Labelling them as “far right,” fascist or Nazi is libellous and not true. In fact, when the real “far right” gain ascendancy in Europe and other places they won’t be Nazi, which is too offensive to European nations; it will be a Europe of the nations, confederated together under a single leader and military. Today’s European populists are nowhere near this future reality.
In the meantime, the peoples of Israel are rising again, at least for a time. Perhaps they have further work to accomplish while they still have time prior to another severe political and moral downturn. To quote Longley again:
“Without this conviction of being a nation with a unique calling from God, would America have made the enormous sacrifices [in WW2]? I doubt it. Without it, would America be bothering with Iraq? I doubt that too.
“Whether you like what America is doing or not, it helps to know where they are coming from. America believes it has a divine mandate to lead the world.”
One does not need to agree with everything President Trump and his administration are doing, but much of it can be associated with their view of America’s “Manifest Destiny” and desire to lead the world once more.
