The president of the Heritage Foundation confronted the hosts at the World Economic Forum Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, challenging claims that the WEF protects democracy and calling elites “part of the problem.”
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts spoke from Davos, where he had been invited to speak on a panel at the World Economic Forum.
Roberts told reporters after his speech that he was somewhat surprised to receive the invitation to the annual meeting of world leaders and globalist figures, but said he appreciated the opportunity to give voice to the “forgotten people” who are not being heard or considered collectively. by those present.
“The people being forgotten are not just poor or working-class Americans of all ethnic backgrounds. There are many of these forgotten people, as I have learned over the past few years [who are] small business owner; people who scrape and save,” he said, adding that many were not always political.
Kevin Roberts faces the hosts Thursday in Davos. AP
“They all believe the same thing, which is that the American Dream is slipping away from them.”
At WEF, Roberts spoke on a panel titled “What to expect from a possible Republican administration,” and was joined by former Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Gerard Baker of the Wall Street Journal and Prof. Walter Russell Mead of the Wall Street Journal – and offered a sharp counterpoint to the majority of Davos figures who sometimes seemed to baffle the moderators.
The moderator, British international affairs expert Sir Robin Niblett, at one point asked Roberts about former President Trump’s promise of “retaliation” if he returned to office, and that the World Economic Forum’s supposed defense of liberal democracy could be “swept under the rug” by the mogul.
“It’s ludicrous that you or anyone would describe Davos as ‘protecting liberal democracy’,” Roberts said.
“Equally ludicrous to use the word ‘dictator’ in Davos and aim it at President Trump. In fact, I don’t think that makes sense.”
He spoke at a WEF panel titled “What to expect from a possible Republican administration.” AFP via Getty Images
Roberts went on to tell the Davos forum that the next conservative president will have a popular mandate to take over the power elite.
“The thing I want to drive home here, because I’m here in Davos, is to explain to a lot of people in this room and watching, with all due respect, nothing personal, but you are a part of it. out of that problem,” he told Niblett.
Roberts said elites in the tone of the WEF are telling ordinary people “the reality is ‘X’ – when the reality is ‘Y'” on issues ranging from border security to climate change.
When Niblett asked what figures Roberts believed would be part of the second Trump administration, he replied that the president-elect would likely decide.
However, Roberts goes on to offer a clear characterization of the kind of people the “forgotten people” want to see in the bureaucracy:
Anyone who is not willing to take the power of unelected bureaucrats and give it back to the American people is not ready to be part of the next conservative administration. #WEF24 pic.twitter.com/8hRtg9Qs9L
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) January 18, 2024
“I’m going to be frank here, because I think I’ve been invited here to be frank: The type of people who are going to come into the next conservative administration are going to be governed by one principle, and that destroys that political understanding. unelected elites and technocrats have more than ordinary people,” he said.
“I will be honest and say that each member’s agenda [next] what the administration needs to do is compile a list of everything that has ever been proposed at the World Economic Forum and object to all of them wholesale.”
Any official in the 47th presidential administration who does not want to reform the bureaucracy has no place in Washington, he said.
In an appearance with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo before his WEF address, Roberts quipped about how the “America First” message didn’t seem to be resonating at the conference:
People walk outside during the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. Reuters
“Surprisingly not. But there are four or five of us who have been invited here out of several thousand who really understand that the America First policy is right, not just for Americans, but for non-Americans as well,” he said on “Morning with Maria.”
“[W]Americans are at the height of their freedom… the whole world really benefits.”
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