The New Cool: A Global “Vibe Shift”

The ‘cool’ left is anything but. The 1960s anti-establishment counter culture that took over civilization mutated into the very establishment they reviled but worse – authoritarian, anti-freedom, anti-individual., antisemitic. Freedom lovers were forced underground. With the election of Trump, the left is out, freedom is cool again and the globe has shifted on it’s axis.

“This time four years ago, liberals could tell themselves that the Trump presidency had been a one-term populist aberration, and that the adults were in charge again,” Niall Ferguson writes. “Now the vibe shift is sweeping those suckers aside.”

That’s what we’re watching unfold … catalyzed by the Trump win and the “Palm Beach Rat Pack.” From an essay by Niall Ferguson: “Fundamentally,” (Santiago) Pliego wrote, “the Vibe Shift is a return to—a championing of—Reality, a rejection of the bureaucratic, the cowardly, the guilt-driven; a return to greatness, courage, and joyous ambition.” To be precise:

• The Vibe Shift is spurning the fake and therapeutic and reclaiming the authentic and concrete.
• The Vibe Shift is a healthy suspicion of credentialism and a return to human judgment.
• The Vibe Shift is living not by lies, and instead speaking the truth—whatever the cost.
• The Vibe Shift is directly facing our tumultuous times, refusing to blackpill, and choosing to build instead.

The vibe shift hit American politics on the night of November 5. What no one foresaw was that it would almost immediately go global, too…. One catchphrase that sums it up: It’s like Trump’s already president. If the vibe shift in culture is about founder mode versus diversity, equity, and inclusion committees, the global vibe shift is about peace through strength versus chaos through de-escalation. It’s Daddy’s Home—not the fraying liberal international order…. “A Vibe Shift Is Coming,” wrote (Allison P.) Davis in 2022. “Will Any of Us Survive It?” It is a good question. The vibe shift has gone from the world of the fashionistas to the world of four-star admirals by way of the tech bros and the Trump–Musk campaign. It began as a revulsion against pronouns and piercings; it is culminating in a global repudiation of the liberal international order that inspired two generations of Democrats. Yale Law School is out. The world is going to look a lot more like Gotham City from here on (Free Press).

Peggy Noonan: Donald Trump hasn’t overshadowed Joe Biden; he has eclipsed him. A former senior official in Mr. Trump’s first term told NBC News a few days ago that Mr. Trump “is already basically running things, and he’s not even president yet” (Wall Street Journal).