The recently concluded World Economic Forum delivered a series of results that few of the leftist leaders who cow to the UN platforms and green agenda scripting had anticipated. Economic policy is also a component (hell, it's in the title after all), yet usually this is considered too dry for news copy, so killing the planet takes priority.

Every year, we get told how trenchant and vital these meetings are, and they manage to move the needle barely beyond blaming the U.S. for anything, and then trying to soak us out of guilt. While these are touted as serious annual global quorums, they inevitably devolve into the usual climate confabs, with the same pablum you could expect from any Greenpeace activist or Subaru owner with a rainbow bumper sticker.

All the usual celebrities were there, like it was "The Garden Gnomes of Rock" summer concert tour. The lickspittle press was enamored with the appearances, and at the same time insisted they served the undoing of the accursed President Donald Trump. It went about as well as collegians on Greek Row looking to blackball a pledge who had previously purchased their frat house.

There was John Kerry, promising to open up the U.S. coffers to all of the whims of Euro-trash eco dreams. Pulled out of a Tennessee tater cellar was Al Gore, with all his usual calamitous climate claptrap. And flouncing in with the energy of a boy band heartthrob (absent actual hormonal fan support) was Governor Brylcreem himself, Gavin Newsom.

Beyond these stunt performers were the actual people of import, and we were assured of all of their heavy gravitas. Our press was promising that the collection of national bosses was set to deliver condemnation on the president; and, to be fair, they tried. Macron was described as filled with a firm resolve and........

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