Davos Isn’t as Smug or as Cool as It Used to Be

Trump and Milei are leading dissidents inside the gates.

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President Donald Trump makes a special address remotely at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2025.

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I’ve never been to the Davos Conference, the annual January meeting of the world’s elite in Switzerland that’s run by the globalist World Economic Forum. But, to catch the shifting currents of debate, I’ve made an effort after each meeting to interview some of the corporate CEOs, hedge fund billionaires, left-leaning members of parliaments, and the heads of nonprofit do-good groups and intellectuals who make up so much of the Davos crowd.

Normally, Davos is a hotbed of planners and self-congratulatory humanitarians who dream up utopian schemes that then can be imposed from the top down by governments.

John Fund

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John Fund

John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.

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