Great Reset: Road from Davos to Serfdom

I should start by confessing that when I first came across the Great Reset (henceforward TGR) on the internet, I guessed it must be a simple, old-fashioned, low-level con, the sort that ends up in courts where tearful pensioners lament the theft of their savings and a slick grifter faces five years as a government guest. Watching the video introducing TGR, however, I couldn’t quite work out how the trick would be pulled.

“You’ll own nothing,” said the soothing voice-over (well, that was honest enough), “and you’ll be happy” (more dubious but also the kind of shrewd promise that might not be actionable at law). Still, where would the pitch go next?

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John O’Sullivan

John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

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I should start by confessing that when I first came across the Great Reset (henceforward TGR) on the internet, I guessed it must be a simple, old-fashioned, low-level con, the sort that ends up in courts where tearful pensioners lament the theft of their savings and a slick grifter faces five years as a government guest. Watching the video introducing TGR, however, I couldn’t quite work out how the trick would be pulled.

“You’ll own nothing,” said the soothing voice-over (well, that was honest enough), “and you’ll be happy” (more dubious but also the kind of shrewd promise that might not be actionable at law). Still, where would the pitch go next?