At the Munich Security Forum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly rejected America’s role in managing the West’s “decline,” calling deindustrialization a deliberate policy and warning that mass migration is destabilizing the West.
He then traveled to Slovakia and Hungary to back Prime Minister Robert Fico and Viktor Orban, negotiating U.S. nuclear plant deals and signaling support against EU pressure.
The episode links Europe’s Digital Services Act and reported EU election interference to a broader censorship apparatus aimed at U.S. elections in 2026 and 2028.
It traces its ideological roots to a 1975 Trilateral Commission1 blueprint, citing Samuel Huntington’s call for “desirable limits” on democracy and for programs to lower workers’ expectations.
Barbara Boyd argues that Trump is dismantling this model by rolling up USAID and USIP, seeking to defund NED, and countering Europe’s censorship infrastructure.
Chapters
00:00 The Midweek Update - "Fascism With a Democratic Face" Intro
01:54 Rubio's European Counter-Offensive — What He Did After Munich
05:08 Fascism With a Democratic Face — The Blueprint They Wrote Down
10:40 Trump's Answer — The Exact Opposite
Snapshots and Notes
Last week, Marco Rubio walked into the Munich Security Forum and said this…
“For we in America have no interests and being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.”
This is the first time a sitting secretary of state has named it.
And when he got on a plane, afterwards, he flew straight to Hungary and Slovakia to back them in fighting it.
Here’s Mike Benz in his February 5th video
“You are being encircled.
“You’re being surrounded.
“You’re being outplayed.
“You’re being outmatched.
“And you do not appreciate the magnitude of the threat you need to respond to and everything that needs to be done to take it on.”
He’s right….
Full video (16m47s):
Europe is building a censorship apparatus designed to rig the 2026 and 2028 elections here.
The administration knows it, and they’re fighting back.
But censorship is only half the story: 50 years ago, the Trilateral Commission outlined a blueprint that did two things.
It built the censorship machine Benz is warning about, and
It told American workers to stop expecting a better life
That your wages would shrink, your factories would close, and you should accept it.
One of their own called it fascism with a democratic face.
Donald Trump is doing exactly the opposite.
Here’s what is being discussed…
Rubio’s European Counter-Offensive — What He Did After Munich (01:54)
So what did Rubio REALLY say at Munich?
Rubio told the assembled globalists that …
Deindustrialization was a conscious policy choice
Mass migration is destabilizing the West, and
The United States has no interest in overseeing managed decline
He told them to defend Western civilization, or America would go forward without them - the room applauded politely.
The European press called it provocative, and then Rubio got on a plane.
He flew to Slovakia, where he met with Prime Minister Robert Fico, a man who survived an assassination attempt in 2024 for the crime of opposing the Ukraine war and defending the nation state.
Then he flew to Hungary to meet Viktor Orbán, who faces an April election with the EU’s globalists in London scheming to defeat him.
Rubio didn’t just shake hands; he worked out deals to build US nuclear plants in both countries, concrete economic partnerships in Europe’s energy wasteland.
He threw his support behind the United States publicly to both men.
And THAT was a direct slap at Munich’s globalists.
Yet, here’s what really matters.
On February 9th, before Rubio even arrived in Munich, his Under Secretary of State for public diplomacy, Sarah Rogers, announced that the United States would begin funding pro-free speech organizations in Europe, specifically to counter Europe’s Digital Services Act.
That’s why Mike Benz is sounding the alarm.
Also,
the House Judiciary Committee just issued a bombshell report showing that the EU has interfered in European elections, deplatforming conservatives, barring candidates, even rerunning entire elections when the results didn’t suit them, and Mike Benz has been making clear that the same censorship apparatus is being aimed at the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election.
Europe’s practice of rigging elections through censorship will be used against us here now in a much bigger way than even 2020.
And there’s every indication the administration is ready to act.
Yesterday, John Solomon (Just the News) reported that the president will soon release dramatic information about foreign interference in our own 2020 election by friends and foes alike, information that will change the national conversation.
“There are going to be significant efforts by foreign powers, some friends, some enemies that were trying to meddle in the system, and they got pretty far down that path.
“And I think when senators realized their state could have been targeted, when senators realize that the intention of the identities of some of the voters might have been assumed, I think there’s going to be a different debate in America.”
Fascism With a Democratic Face — The Blueprint They Wrote Down (05:08)
Let’s go deeper because Europe’s censorship machine didn’t appear out of nowhere; it has a blueprint, and it was written down.
In her Monday brief, Susan Kokinda highlighted Rubio’s declaration that deindustrialization was a deliberate policy.
She told you how the British Empire’s Council on Foreign Relations sold a policy called controlled disintegration of our economy to successive US presidents, starting with Jimmy Carter.
I want to show you the other side of that same project: at the same time, the CFR was promoting the deliberate destruction of our economy, the Trilateral Commission was promoting the idea that democracy itself was in crisis, and Samuel Huntington was selling the idea that democracy itself was in crisis.
Here’s what Huntington actually wrote - hear these words carefully because this isn’t anyone’s interpretation, this is only some of what he put on paper.
He wrote ...
Did you catch that? Desirable limits to democracy (our note: THINK - based on WHOSE desire?)
He’s saying the problem isn’t tyranny; the problem is that you have too much say in your government.
And then, in the appendix, they lay out what to actually do about it.
Huntington wrote this …
A program to lower your expectations?
They didn’t just want to limit democracy; they wanted to train you to stop expecting a decent life, and then they built a system to make sure you didn’t get one.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Trilats met again in Washington in April of 1992 and revived Huntington’s ideas and program.
One day after that meeting concluded, an Oxford professor named Norman Stone published a commentary in the London Daily Telegraph titled, “Coming Next on the Cards, Fascism with a Human Face.”
This is the post-1990 version of democracy that Marco Rubio was referencing in Munich…
“That infamous wall that had cleaned this nation into two came down and with it an evil empire, and the East and West became one again.
“But the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion that we had entered, quote, the end of history, that every nation would now be a liberal democracy, that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood, that the rules-based global order, an overused term, would now replace the national interest, and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.”
Its key institutions in our country were …
which, under the banner of democracy building, conducted color revolution regime change operations on behalf of London and Wall Street financiers throughout the world.
When Donald Trump declared his candidacy in 2016, this entire apparatus.
The government part and the private funders like
George Soros’ Open Society Foundation
the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, and
Arabella Advisors
turned against Trump.
And who can forget this?
The installed president, Joe Biden in 2022, condemning more than half the nation as fascists because they support Trump…
“We are still at our core, a democracy, and yet, History tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy.
“That’s why tonight I’m asking our nation to come together, unite behind the single purpose of defending our democracy, regardless of your ideology.
“We’re all called by duty and conscience to confront extremists who put their own pursuit of power above all else.
“Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans.
“We must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to destroying American democracy.”
At the time Biden made that speech, Mar-a-Lago had been raided, and the criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump were all being planned.
THIS is fascism with a democratic face.
And Senate testimony just last week showed that the same private funders behind regime change abroad have poured millions into Minneapolis to fund the so-called pro-democracy street riots there.
Senator Hawley: “Where’s this money coming from? I mean, how is it flowing to these groups? Do you have any sense?”
Seamus Bruner: “So we’ve built a database that contains hundreds of thousands of rows from grants from networks like the Soros Network, the Arabella Funding Network, as mentioned, the Neville Roy Singham Funding Network, many others, Tides, the Ford Foundation Network, the Rockefeller Funding Network, these massive NGOs that have billions of dollars to spend on all kinds of coordinated protest or, in this case, riot activity.“
Trump’s Answer — The Exact Opposite (10:40)
So here is where Donald Trump comes in, because Trump isn’t just reversing the censorship, he’s reversing the entire economic model that made censorship necessary.
Think about it - if your blueprint says workers have to accept less, then you need censorship and surveillance to stop them from organizing against it.
You need rigged elections to keep the managers of decline in power.
Censorship and economics are the same project.
Trump was doing the exact opposite of what Huntington prescribed.
Huntington said, lower workers’ expectations.
Trump said, worker prosperity is the center of my entire program.
Huntington said, give governance to the elites.
Trump sent his whole cabinet to Davos to tell the elites their system is finished.
In one year, President Trump has rolled up USAID and the US Institute for Peace, and he is fighting Congress right now to defund the National Endowment for Democracy.
Investigations are underway into the private funders.
As shown today, the State Department is actively counterattacking Europe’s censorship infrastructure.
This isn’t just politics - this is the reversal of a 50-year project, controlled disintegration of our economy, and fascism with a democratic face as the method of enforcing it.
Trump is replacing managed decline with an industrial republic built for workers and families.
The apparatus that was built in 1975 to manage your decline, rig your elections, censor your speech, and call it all democracy, is being rolled up.
Not quickly, not without a fight.
The people who built it still control institutions across Europe and in this country, and they are mobilizing everything they have, from Brussels censorship to democratic street theater, to stop what is happening.
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FOOTNOTE
The Trilateral Commission, founded by American banker David Rockefeller in 1973, is a private organization formed to address challenges arising from the increasing economic interdependence of the United States, its primary allies (Canada, Japan, and Western European countries), and to foster greater cooperation among them.
It functions as an extension of the Council on Foreign Relations, which dates back to the early 1920s.
The commission consists of an elite group of approximately 300 members, including prominent business, political, and intellectual decision-makers from Western Europe, North America, and Japan.
Its leadership includes an executive committee and three regional chairs representing Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region, with headquarters in Paris, Washington D.C., and Tokyo, respectively.
The full membership convenes annually, with meeting locations rotating among the three regions, and regional and national meetings occur throughout the year to discuss reports and debate strategy.
In 1975, the Trilateral Commission published a significant report titled “The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies”.
This report was authored by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki.
It was initially submitted in the spring of 1975, after being set up in the spring of 1974, and was subsequently published as a book by New York University Press that same year.
The report examines the difficulties confronting democratic governments in North America, Western Europe, and Japan, identifying challenges related to context, internal factors, and the democratic process itself.
Perspectives
Critique of Democracy and Economic Growth
The Trilateral Commission’s “grand design” is a New World Order, and a key element of this is Samuel P. Huntington’s paper, which recommended discarding democracy and economic development as outdated concepts.
Huntington’s paper, as a co-author of “Crises in Democracy,” argued that there may be desirable limits to economic growth and to the indefinite extension of political democracy.
The Trilateral Commission is committed to ending democratic-republican forms of sovereign government, a commitment reflected in a 1975 Tokyo resolution drafted by Samuel P. Huntington.
Democracy’s Weakness and Governance Challenges
The 1975 report, “The Crisis of Democracy,” asserted that democracy’s fundamental weakness was its tendency to cause inflation (our note: in reality, fiat currency, set up by the City of London, causes inflation)
Huntington's report interprets “excess democracy” and the dangers it brings, focusing on the “governability of the democracies.” (our note: though this was fabricated as a warning, it is the very thing the Left has been doing)
The report identifies contextual and internal challenges, as well as those arising from the democratic process itself, that face democratic governments in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. (our note: the very same regions of the globe that the City of London wants to take down)
