The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | The Great Reset, Explained by Michael Walsh

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

Just a few months after the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world and prompted governments to impose draconian lockdowns, a group of global elites introduced what is known as the Global Reset. Championed by the World Economic Forum—host of the posh Davos, Switzerland, meeting for the jet-setting crowd—ideas connected to the Great Reset were embraced by the likes of President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and King Charles III. “We need nothing short of a paradigm shift, one that inspires action at revolutionary levels and pace,” then-Prince Charles said in a video launching the project in June 2020. “We simply cannot waste any more time—the only limit is our willingness to act, and the time to act is now.” What exactly is the Great Reset? And how would it radically transform our civilization as we know it? Michael Walsh, editor of “Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order,” answers those questions and more. Walsh, a novelist, author, longtime contributor to Time, and founding editor of Breitbart, assembled an all-star lineup of authors to produce the book. Listen to the full show or read a lightly edited transcript of the interview at DailySignal.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Champion by the World Economic Forum and embraced by the likes of President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and King Charles III, it's now the focus of a book featuring more than a dozen conservative authors. Michael Walsh joins our show to explain what the Great Reset is and how it would radically transform our civilization as. we know it. We also read your letters to the editor, plus it's Halloween, and we have a good news story to bring you about an organization that is making sure children across America have their costume dreams come true today. Now stay tuned for today's show after this. Today, news you can trust feels like a rarity. That's why the Daily Signal podcast releases a top news edition every weekday at 5 p.m. Whether driving home from work, fixing dinner, or picking the kids up from soccer practice, you can stay informed on the headlines you care about. Every show is quick and succinct,

designed to keep you up to speed on the issues that actually matter. Catch our top news edition right here in your Daily Signal podcast feed every evening or listen first thing in the morning before catching the day's interview. And be sure to subscribe on the Daily Signal podcast so you never miss an episode. We are joined on the Daily Signal podcast today by Michael Walsh, editor of Against the Great Reset, 18 Theses, Contra, the New World Order. Michael is a novelist, author, and a longtime contributor to time, a founding editor at Breitbart, and a good friend. He has taken on this new assignment to bring together a collection of outstanding authors for this new book.

Michael, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me, Rob. It's good to talk to you again. Before I ask you specifically about the book, I just want to start at the beginning. Explain to our listeners what the Great Reset is. Okay, the Great Reset is, if you were to believe our friends on the left, a right-wing nut conspiracy theory. So we'll start with that proposition. And then we'll point out that we must have the most effective conspiracy theory in the history of right-wing-nut conspiracy theories because it's actually up on their own website.

That would be the World Economic Forum based in Geneva and Davos, Switzerland. and they have used the COVID pandemic panic to beta test their notion for how the world ought to be organized around a kind of oligarchical elite core of international businessmen, celebrities, and political figures. And in short, it's a way to rejigger capitalism and turn it into something, in my opinion, that's as close to Italian fascism as we've seen since the 1930s. That is a collaboration between government and big business to control the population. And in so doing, fight climate change, and I put air quotes around climate change every time I use that word, sustainable energy, green power, all of the crackpot ideas that are currently, being forced down our throats are derived from notions of the Great Reset.

And to just finish this brief introduction to them, Klaus Schwab, who is the head of the World Economic Forum, and a colleague of his Thierry Mallory, I believe his name is, wrote a book recently called COVID-19, the Great Reset. So the link between the enforced law, and the abrogations of our First Amendment rights, especially, and COVID and the COVID imposition is very clear in their minds and they want to do it again. So in short, they gave us a test, and as far as they're concerned, we passed with flying colors. We stopped our freedom of speech. We stopped going to church. We let them close our churches down. They broke up freedom of assembly. All of the things we thought were not only guaranteed to us by the Constable. But by God, as the framers of the Constitution pointed out, all of our natural rights were gone overnight and we gave up without a fight.

So we're not off to a good start, but we hope that against the Great Reset will be ammunition for all of those of us who want to fight back against this. We sure do. And the book is fantastic in that regard. Before I ask you about it, I do want to get your personal thoughts, though, because I sense that, you yourself were quite disappointed with some institutions or Americans who just blindly went along with what they were being told. What were you thinking about during that time of COVID when you saw, whether it be churches or governments, politicians, business leaders, just adopt these ideas and shut down society. In effect, for several months in some cases or in some states, it seems like we're still dealing with the repercussions. That's correct.

Well, as it happened, I had just gone home to Ireland, where I live a great deal of the year. And we were settling in and glad to be back when the two weeks to slow the spread or flatten the curve, whatever nonsense they were selling, was imposed on us. And I recall sitting in one of our locals there in my little village out on the west coast of Ireland. and saying, they will never let us go. This is a complete lie. Now that they've got you doing what they want you to do, they're never going to let you go without a fight.

And it took, as you just noted, Rob, two years plus. And in some places it's still going on. I see people in masks in the supermarket, to whom I say, hey, a little early for Halloween, isn't it, buddy? because, you know, we all had to take the mask care and abuse for the last two years in this psychotic regime that had been imposed upon us. The doctor's offices still have signs up which say masks must be worn. I choose to ignore those signs because the only way you can fight back is to just not do it.

And finally, enough people did. This in a way is what's called Irish democracy, which is acknowledging. the rule and then ignoring all of the actual restrictions. But here we are. I was very disappointed, especially as a Catholic, disappointed in the Catholic Church, which, and again, I'm in Ireland when this is happening, we had 700 years plus of English occupation and a half a millennium of proscriptions

against our land ownership, our language, our religion, our family structure, our property, all of that had been so abused and abolished by the English. The only thing that was against that was the Catholic Church. And in those days, we had the famous hedgerow priests who would come and offer mass behind the bushes, basically, out on the countryside and hoped that no one ratted them out because they would be killed. Well, this time, the Catholic Church in Ireland folded like a cheap suit. and I think it lost whatever remaining respect it used to have from the people of Ireland. Now, project that across the world.

You saw that Canadian pastor being arrested in his own church. This is something I don't think you ever expected to see, Rob. Certainly I never did. Certainly didn't, Michael. And that's one of the reasons we're grateful that you're calling more attention to it. You mentioned Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum. there are some other high-profile individuals, King Charles, President Biden, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, all were using this language throughout this period of time. So it's certainly something, I find it interesting that you say that they describe it as a conspiracy theory when they themselves have embraced the language and the ideas behind the Great Resa.

Embraced it. They invented it. It's on their website. You can go. You can look it up. I encourage everybody listening to go to the world economic Forum website, look up, great reset, and you will see multiple videos about it. And the tagline on one of them is, you will own nothing and be happy. That's what they want for you. Oh, you'll eat bugs, too. That's kind of a little piquant refinement that they've added. But these people are both malevolent and insane simultaneously, and we must be prepared to fight them. Well, your book helps us prepare for that fight, and it's incredibly important in sending a message to those global elites who are trying to restructure our civilization. Tell us about how you were able to pull together this all-star collection of authors and really deep thinkers into just what I would describe as an incredibly

powerful tome that really takes on this idea. Oh, thank you for that compliment, Rob. Basically, it helps being 73 years old. and having been in the journalism business since 1972. So there's a kind of winnowing effect that's caused either by death or retirement for those of us who've been at it for a long time. But I was lucky enough to know almost every one of the people that we included in the book personally. Those that I didn't, obviously, we knew of each other via reputation or mutual friends. And I cast a fairly wide net, and I got about a 95.

percent agreeable response rate. A couple guys we couldn't get much to my chagrin, but if we do another book which we have planned in the works, I'll certainly ask them as well. But I must say everybody was absolutely great. I was very tough in terms of what I wanted and the kind of essays I wanted from each person. And they gave it to me without much of a fight and we worked over it and worked over it. Because one thing I didn't want to do, Rob, was have it be journalism between hardcover. I started in newspapers. I was at Time Magazine for many years as their chief classical music critic and later on a foreign correspondent during the Cold War. So I spent the years between 1985 and 1991 very often behind either the Berlin Wall or the Iron Curtain in the Soviet Union itself. I wanted something

that would last. So all of these essays are written, not. to be topical, but to be pertinent to now. It's a little bit like the movie business. When you do a movie, you know it's going to be at minimum two years before this thing gets produced, if it ever does. So it can't be so au corinth that it's old and tired by the time audiences get to it. So I hope that we have a book that's as current as we can possibly make it, given that it was written 18 months ago. And I hope the audience takes it to heart. and employs some of the strategisms and tools of analysis that we've provided. Well, you do have an incredible list of authors, including Victor Davis Hansen, Conrad Black,

Michael Anton, Roger Kimball, and many others will provide a link to all of them in the transcript and show notes for this interview. Tell us about some of the arguments, maybe some of your favorite arguments that the authors outline in the book. Well, you know, it's like choosing your favorite child. I mean, after you. you've spent all this time on it. I would say each essay is unique. So I broke them up into six different categories, the political, the personal, the economic,

the ineffable, which is the three essays that come at the end of the book. Each writer, and they were all male, except for our wonderful Janice Fiamengo from Canada, was assigned to topic. and basically delivered on that topic. I must say I had a couple of writers that I approached and said I'd like you to write for this book, and the author said,

you can't tell me what to write because I gave them suggested topics. And I said, well, I have to because I don't want 18 essays on the same subject. So we didn't use them, unfortunately. But, for example, Conrad writes about capitalism, and that's twinned with Mike Anton writing about, socialism. Roger Kimball, who's a dear friend and the publisher of my books, The Devil's Pleasure Palace, and the Fire Angel. He wrote about the nation state. Richard Fernandez, who's a contributor to PJ Media when I was there and now contributes to our website called thepipeline.org, wrote about the conflict and relationship between science and religion. James Polos wrote about

technology and what the scary future it has in store for us. Salvatore Balbonus, who's an American living in Australia, wrote a wonderful piece about the future of transportation, all under the rubric of Under the Great Recess. So every single element we consider it is what's the effect that this reset could possibly have on these different aspects of life? I bring up the rear with an essay on art. and does art flourish under totalitarianism?

And I base some of this in part on my own experiences in the Soviet Union with Soviet art and tell a few more stories from the good old days. So it's got something for everybody. Each essay is roughly the same length so we could get into it in depth. And each writer had his say and everyone, as I said, cooperated wonderfully and signed off on the final product. So it's as good as it gets as the movie title goes. Well, thank you for your work, editing all of them and putting it together in such a comprehensive and effective package. I think that readers will find it quite effective.

And I'm glad to hear that you have other works in mind in the future. Before we get to that, I did want to ask you about one of the authors. You dedicate the book to Angelo Cotevilla, who is. Obviously, a well-known thinker who unfortunately passed away. Tell us about his contribution and why it was important to remember him in this way. Well, obviously, when we commissioned it, no one had any idea of what the future would hold. And for Angelo and for the rest of us, it was quite tragic when he died not long after having turned in his big piece, which is about education. Angelo, a former professor at Boston University,

a very well-known, distinguished thinker translator of Machiavelli, and among other things. And a dear friend of mine delivered a piece on how, really, in a way, it's kind of the central piece of the book because we are for such a bad future, given the current state of education, which is essentially indoctrination now into left, methodology and thought.

And we dedicated the book to Angelo, I think, by consensus, because, you know, he's a fallen comrade. As you and I, we should tell the listeners, go back to the early days of the Andrew Breitbart big sites. And again, you know, when you have a fallen comrade, you honor his memory and try to carry on the work that he did. So I hope that these essays are all worthy of the memory of Angela. God knows, his own essay is quite spectacular.

It certainly is. And Michael, you mentioned throughout this interview your biography and some of the amazing things that you've been able to do. Of course, you and I worked together when you were leading big journalism with Andrew Breitbart. Did you ever imagine that we would be in the situation we are today with this populist revolution that we see among conservatives, obviously the election of Donald Trump, and so much of what I think Breitbart was, was, championing back years ago before it really it arrived in the political scene. Tell us about this moment that we're living through right now and based on your life experiences, where you think we're going in the future. Well, I have a lovely anecdote, if I may, Rob, to talk about that.

Right after Trump was elected, I was in the old executive office building right across from the West Wing, you know it well. And we were looking out the window. I was visiting with Sebastian Gorka and Mike Anton, actually. And I looked out the window, and there was some dignitaries coming and going at the front door of the White House, and you can see them from this angle. And I turned to both Seb and Mike and said, it's so rewarding to me. This was now 2017 that seven years ago, when we launched big journalism, and slightly before that, when Andrew launched big government with the late Mike Flynn

and Big Hollywood with John Nulte. I said seven, eight years ago, we were four or five guys with laptops. That was it. And now we have a president of the United States in the White House who in part benefited from the revolution that we led. This gets to me the point that I really want to make is to all of our listeners.

You know, heritage to the foundations. We all have to cooperate. You know, we will hang separately if we don't hang together. But you have to believe in what you're doing and put your life and your fortune and your sacred honor, certainly your careers, as we all did, on the line in order to stand up for what you believe in. We don't need cowards in our movement and we don't need to play it safe. We need everybody to take these tools and use them. because if you think back up to the Bolshevik revolution,

the communist revolution in the Soviet Union and Russia, they didn't start it. They piggybacked onto somebody else's revolution against the Tsar. And then they moved in, and they could only move in because they had the intellectual infrastructure to do it. Now, Russia was hardly anything like the United States, and it was a dysfunctional economic basket case. So they were able to seize power.

But what I say to the young people, Or I say to this to people who write in on our site, which is mentioned its name again, the hyphen pipeline, like oil pipeline, dot org. They'll say, yeah, it's all very well for you, writers, yap, yap, yap, but what are we going to do? Well, I can't tell you what you're going to do. I can only give you the intellectual framework for you

to decide what you're going to do. us putting out programs and white papers and 20-point, that's the job for politicians. But our job as communicators, Robin, you know this well. And so many people that you and I know in common who worked at Breitbart have spread out into the larger culture. Our job is to communicate with people, to alert them to the danger and explain to them why it's happening and why it's important to combat it. The details are done at the grassroots level, which is not where we are in this book, obviously. It's on the thinking level. But you need that in order for a successful revolution to happen.

We certainly do. And I hope many of our daily signal listeners take that to heart and use this as an opportunity to arm themselves with this information that you've put together. And also to put a plug in for the pipeline, I hope that we'll provide a link in the transcript again in the show notes. but thank you for the work that you do there. And I also saw that you're featuring your essay from the book this week. So it is very nice for readers who want to check it out in advance to go to the pipeline. Again, it's the hyphen pipeline.org. Michael, let me ask you in wrapping up here, there are so many people who have been allies and champions to push back.

and one of them is Steve Bannon, who has been in the news recently. I know he's a big supporter of this book and the project that you're working on. What can you tell our listeners about Steve, your relationship with him, and his contributions to this effort? Well, I'm glad you asked that question. Steve and I go back quite a bit, as you might expect. And he's public enemy number one to so many people on the left. But Steve Bannon is the most courageous person. I know. Honey Badger, as he's sometimes called, he doesn't suffer fools gladly. He goes after what he wants.

He speaks his mind. And the fact that he's been provisionally at least sentenced to jail for having defied the wishes of the Committee on Public Safety, if I may refer back to the psychotics of the French Revolution. and Madame Defarge herself, Liz Cheney, the fact that he's defied these people so bravely and so openly, he's a real, may I say as a fellow Irishman, a real Irish type, too stubborn to know when to quit. And if we don't have men like Steve out front doing it, then we're in trouble. But we need more of them. And something I've often said, especially in Hollywood, where I've had a very productive. screenwriter career. I'm a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, which you can't join.

They join you once you start selling scripts to major studios. People say, how am I going to make it? I can't come out of the closet. I'm afraid I'll lose my job. Well, stop being afraid. No one likes a whiner. Stand up for what you believe in. Take an example like Steve Bannon or the late Andrew Breitbart or whoever else comes to mind at the moment. and follow them and be like them. I think that's the most effective way we can possibly fight back. And I think we hope to deliver a beating to the Democrats. After that, I hope we can take back the White House in 2024.

Michael, before I let you go, you had referenced earlier in the conversation. We're talking again today about against the Great Reset. But you said this is the first of maybe other books that will come in a series. tell us what you have in store for the future. Yes. Well, if this book is successful and we're off to a very good start, and thank you for your help and Heritage for its help, there'll be more books. Not provisionally, I have thought of calling them against something. And let me really quickly, Rob, I mentioned the introduction of the book. The idea of against X is a very, very old historically honored tradition.

You had Demosthenes against Philip Second of Macedon. You had Cicero against Markath, Antony. And their works were called Against Something. You had Tertullian early Christian theologian against Martian. Against Martian. So we're against the Great Reset. But we're against a lot of other things, too. And I'm working on, I can't tell you exactly what it's going to be right now.

But since we're off to a good start with this book, and your listeners can help us by going out and buying this book. This book is an interesting combination of private financing, which allowed us to pay our writers very, very well, and commercial publishing, led by Adam Bellow, Saul Bellow's son, the great New York editor, who started his own press now called Bombadier Books at Post Hill Press. If this combination is to work,

And that's the way to make it work, to get around some of the prescriptions against conservative thought in the mainstream media. Then we need the support of your listeners, heritage members, people all over the country. Otherwise, we can't do it. So give us a hand. That's basically all I can tell you about that right now. But there will be more, and they will be against some of the things I guarantee you you're against. Well, Michael, thank you again for taking on the leadership role of editor and assembling an outstanding piece of work here. And to Adam Bello and everybody else at Postale Press, we appreciate their work.

They've published my colleague Fred Lucas recently on his book about voter suppression and the myths associated with that. So we are grateful to all of you for the contributions you're making. And best wishes encourage our daily signal listeners to go out and purchase the book and support this effort. Michael Walsh, thank you again for joining us. My pleasure. Thanks, Rob. Did you know that under Biden, our military is dangerously weak, so weak that we're not ready of China, Russia, or Iran attacks? We explain why and how to fix it in our 2023 Index of U.S. military strength, a comprehensive deep dive on the readiness of our nation to face threats and complete its mission in today's world. Learn more at heritage.org slash military.

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Over to you. That's right. Today is Halloween. And for our kids, that means two things. candy and costumes. Today, kids are given permission to let their imaginations run wild as they dress up as pirates, princesses, and superheroes. But purchasing Halloween costumes can be a financial challenge for some families. But there is a group of volunteers who year after year from August to October, they collect and send kids Halloween costumes who otherwise maybe couldn't

afford one. Allie Womack is the chief operations officer and a founding member of Ween Dream. And I recently had a chance to catch up with her and ask her why she and her friend decided to start a nonprofit to make the wishes of children come true at Halloween. So, Ali, how did this start? What launched Ween Dream? So Weing Dream started unofficially shortly after Katrina. the founder Kelsey Meek moved here from Pensacola and noticed that kids were trick-or-treating, especially in the central city neighborhood of New Orleans, without any costumes.

And she's like, there's got to be a way that people have things just lying around. So she started collecting from family and friends and then realized that there was much more of a need than she had anticipated, that it went well beyond, you know, having survived a hurricane. So then she incorporated in 24, 14. And that's when I came on. So I'm also one of the founding members with her. And we were like, okay, so it's not just happening in New Orleans. It has to be happening other places. So we became

a 50-2-3, then started with 60 costumes in her living room. And that first year we gave away 500. And it was like the 12 different states that kids had requested costumes. And each year we've just been growing and growing and growing. We've actually reached over 18,000 kids in 42 states this year. So it's been a pretty cool process to have gone from that just a few short years ago. Yeah, that is a lot of growth very quickly. And you all are an all volunteer organization. How exactly does it work in practice? So like you said, we're all volunteer. No one gets paid for any of their efforts. We have a very small board of five people. One is in New Jersey, one is in Baton Rouge, and three are in New Orleans. And we all work different parts of the organization from finances

to actual logistics, to shipping, to all of that. So basically what happens is families will apply for a costume, families or groups. So they're all children in need, and that can be anyone living in the foster care system in a homeless shelter in poverty or kids living with a disability or some sort of medical condition or having survived like a natural disaster, like a flood, a hurricane, or a fire. So everyone applies in August and we get collect all the kids information. So we get a bunch of sizing information and then they get to pick out two characters. And then first we go to our inventory. We get a lot of new and gently used costumes, donations. We have a warehouse in Jefferson, Louisiana, just outside of New Orleans,

where we process all of the costumes. You make sure everything is clean, no holes, rips, hairs, anything like that. And then once we get that list from all of our applicants, we match costumes with kids because the last thing we want is for a kid who is, you know, going through anything to get something that doesn't fit, but they don't really want, you know, that doesn't look new. And then by the middle of October, we've shipped everything off to our kids, and then we just wait for pictures. Wow.

What are some of the craziest costume requests that you all have fulfilled this year? So this year was actually a pretty normal year. You know, kids want all of the same things that I remember growing up, like all of the scary movies from Jason to Michael Myers. You know, princesses are always. big. Superheroes are always big, but a couple that stand out to me from years past, there was a girl who was in a wheelchair. She was a paraplegic, and the first year she applied for a costume, she wanted to be a mermaid. And I thought, oh, gosh, you know, that's so fitting for her.

Well, her mom wrote us the next year and said that she had to be amputated from both of her legs. And that next year, she wanted to be a shark attack, which I thought was such a, it was like a humbling thing for me because, you know, she's making light out of her situation. And we were so thankful that we could help provide that for her, that Halloween. Wow, that's incredible. When you work with kids like that and any child that's coming to all asking for help, what is the message that you hope kids receive? A lot of people think that Halloween is just for kids to walk around the neighborhood and get free candy. But Halloween is actually the only holiday that we celebrate that the entire community comes together, and it's not just, you know,

specific with Marty Braw, the entire community comes together in New Orleans, but Halloween is coast to coast. So there's that aspect of it. But the most important thing about the Halloween costumes is that those kids that are living with whatever trials and tribulations that they have in their life, they actually get to wear that costume and use their imagination and play and be outside of their circumstances. know, a kid with multiple sclerosis gets to have muscles or a girl who can't afford dance classes gets to dress up as a ballerina or a kid living in a homeless shelter gets to dress up as a veterinarian and feel what it's like to potentially be that someday. So it goes

well beyond just the trick-or-treating and we really hope that kids will be able to have that imagination and play and just be a kid again. Ween Dream collects costumes. You're around. So if you want to get involved in future Halloween's and help support their work, you can visit weendream.org. And we hope that you and your kids, your grandkids, have a safe and fun Halloween tonight, whether you're going out trick-or-treating or just having a peaceful fall night at home. Well, Virginia, after, I think, three trunker treats and a few other Halloween activities, this is certainly the culmination of a very busy time for parents like myself. Sounds like there's a lot of candy in your house right now, right? A lot. Well, we're going to

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