The ever forward arc of ‘progress’ assumed by globalist elites was shaken cataclysmically by the unexpected earthquake win of outsider Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States in November, 2016. But the real tremblers began earlier that year across the pond in Britain on June 23, 2016 when the British population stunned all experts by coming out in droves to defend sovereignty with a vote to leave the European Union. As has happened on multiple occasions, the influence of the Mother country on the United States, and vice versa was evidenced in full flower. The casual assumption by elites in both countries that, the concept of ‘citizen’ had evolved irreversibly beyond the national boundaries and unique formative events that had formed the world’s two oldest continuing representative democracies, was abruptly derailed.

Never say die, never give in, when you are sure that you are right, though, is a foundational tenet of the liberal elite. The attacks, delays, and obfuscations began almost immediately in both countries. In the U.S., a cadre of deep state elites put into motion a crippling and potentially death dealing plan to dismantle the Trump Administration at birth, with the Russian Collusion hysteria and orchestrated ‘investigation’. The two year non-stop attack from both internal government coordinators and the media obsessed with removing the blot of Trumpism from their determined narrative as to the acceptable direction of the country, paralyzed most initiatives and required Trump to swing from the heels in pugilist fashion, at times his own worst enemy. In Britain a faux march towards Brexit with the Article 50 vote in the House of Commons covered a leadership elite impassioned to stall and obstruct any development of an agreement with the European Union that would actually significantly change Britain’s relationship. The goal was, with each passing month, a “do over” that would ignore the clear will of the British populous with the first plebiscite, and manipulate a second vote to overturn the first, locking Great Britain permanently in the grip of the continental overlords of the European Union. When you are defending the ever forward arc of progress, you can’t let democratic minions who think they want to control their own future stand in your way.

The fascinating lesson, however, learned over and over is the stubborn strength of the mechanisms of democracy set up hundreds of years ago in both countries, resistant to the manipulations of false and misleading narratives. The edifice of the Trump Collusion narrative has crumbled into dissolution against facts and overreach, exposing the righteous attack as closer to the ‘witch-hunt’ defined by the President. The final blow may have come when the Chief Investigator Mueller, held up as indomitable and impartial, revealed finally in Congressional hearings designed to devastate Trump, that he barely comprehended what had been the details or the legal foundations of his own investigation. In Britain, the multiple delays of the multiple deadlines for leaving came up against the full fury of the British electorate when they voted overwhelmingly for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in European Parliament elections, crushing the establishment parties, in a victory by a party that had not even existed six weeks prior to the vote.

The most recent indication that the tumult between the global elites and the contrarian people they rule was not going away, was the internal election of Boris Johnson displacing Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party and ascension to the Prime Ministership of the House of Commons. A leaver from the start, Johnson has been painted as a clownish, lightweight figure by the establishment, much along the lines of his American counterpart, Donald Trump. Johnson started his premiership with his own version of “draining the swamp”, removing all semblance of Theresa May’s bumbling EU appeasement cabinet and replacing them with hardline leavers. He set a standard for leaving on October 31st, with or without an agreement with the EU, and pledged firmly no more moving of the line in the sand.

The strange result is, once again, a historical coalescence of the special influences and relationships between Great Britain and the United States that defies the demands of others to abrogate the relationship once and for all. One thinks back to the last time such a convocation led to immense progress, the quirky relationship of a bookish middle class chemist and an American actor, who found themselves uncommonly bound on common ideology and purpose.

The possibilities of a restoration of a special relationship between Johnson and Trump along the lines of Thatcher and Reagan can seem a stretch when the labile personalities and elastic ideological convictions of the current duo seem impossible to pin down. Their ‘can do’ spirit’ and the basis of what they believe regarding the earned greatness of achievement of their respective countries however shine brightly against any perceived lack of intellectualized ideological underpinning. The two men are part of a crusade to reverse the tide of decay that permeates western civilized culture, and have the strange current convergence of an aligned electorate in both countries that want the great experiment of individual freedom, to go on, just a bit longer.