The Ongoing Establishment

It seems that President Bush began with good instincts, (or he was a better actor than we gave him credit for) with a tendency toward rejecting the Liberal Internationalism of the Establishment, which is the ongoing almost amorphous process of using anything that arises to help the drift toward the goal of world governance. But Bush was fairly easily co opted by Neoconservatives, who are really promoting another version of liberal internationalism. Nixon had fought against this same liberal internationalism of the east coast (by promoting a balance of powers) and was probably brought down as a consequence of his courage.

Democrats generally aid this process, but Republicans are often co opted, as happened with President Bush, and perhaps Reagan to a lesser extent. Now President Elect Obama fits right into the slot preferred by the Liberal International Establishment, and we can expect the Establishment to have an easy time with him, aided by the U.N., the Council On Foreign Relations, etc.

Some of the forces fighting against the Establishment at this time, with varying degrees of success, are the Paleoconservatives, libertarians, the New Right in Europe, Eurasianism, and some versions of Islam.