A statement that would have seemed unimaginable only a few years ago: The West has much to learn from El Salvador. From widespread Bitcoin acceptance to tough-on-crime policies, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has demonstrated how economic freedom and zero tolerance for lawbreakers constitute the core of a competent, populist conservative movement.

Through his embrace of Bitcoin, Bukele has welcomed innovation that opened his country to tech investment, routing countries tied to the central bank-driven financial system. This has allowed him to leapfrog other nations in foreign tech investment, setting up a bright future for economic growth in the tech sector.

But economic freedom is only possible if the capital it generates can be protected and if individuals with wealth cannot feel safe in the country where they invest. Bukele has accompanied his embrace of Bitcoin with a massive crackdown on crime, stamping out the scourge of drug gangs even with the U.S. and Biden Regime lackeys trying to stand in his way. Bukele may allow liberal tech-oriented foreigners to invest in his country, but he will not let their corrosive ideology impede his Salvadoran renaissance.

Bukele would never dream of letting foreigners enter his country and dictate matters of public policy. He would never permit invaders to lay siege to his nation and subsidize them to prey upon his compatriots. On the other hand, these are now the established
policies of the United States, with anyone who utters a peep in opposition lambasted as an enemy of so-called “liberal democracy” and driven from polite society. Since the mainstream media’s turn on President Donald J. Trump, “liberal democracy” has
morphed from a core American value into an Orwellian neologism that means something entirely different.

“Liberal democracy” has become a set of schizophrenic policies that the oligarchy prefers, including open borders, corporate-managed trade, limitless decadence, and depravity, the commodification of every aspect of society, and the erasure of nationalism toward the goal of centralized global governance by technocratic elites. It does not matter if these policies are violently unpopular with the people; if you oppose them, you oppose democracy, are an enemy of progress, and must be demonized, de-banked, and destroyed.

If Bukele, a supposed “illiberal” in the eyes of the globalists, sought counsel from NGOs funded by George Soros and followed their recommendations to create an “open society,” he would be the belle of the ball in Davos, and global media would report glowingly on him regardless of the consequences of his decisions. Undoubtedly, there would be more crime and less prosperity in El Salvador. Still, Bukele would be lionized as a hero of the elites, much like “girl boss” figureheads Sanna Marin of Finland and Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, who were praised relentlessly by the media before ultimately being run out of office after the façade crumbled. Their failure was too evident to conceal further.

What globalist elites characterize as “illiberal” is, in fact, simply the will of the people.

Bukele is overwhelmingly popular in El Salvador for his populist economic policies and relentless crackdown on crime. His achievements are nothing short of a miracle; Salvadorans know that from their reality.

However, globalists gloss over this success because it was not created through bureaucratic consensus or by listening to the caste
of approved soothsayers; instead, one brilliant, forward-thinking trailblazer brave enough to defy the mores of the established order simply did it. The audacity of a political establishment that persecutes and prosecutes its political adversaries, from President Trump on down, using every specious justification imaginable to punish their opposition, calling someone like Bukele “illiberal” is the height of hypocrisy. It also bears mention that prestigious organizations (in the eyes of the elites) like the IMF and World Bank have exploited incompetent and corrupt regimes in the third world to facilitate predatory loan agreements to dominate the natural resources of those countries.

Now that their loan scam has been exposed, the elites actively hamper growth in underdeveloped countries with their climate change deception. Nations may not grow too rapidly because they must abide by draconian limits like “Carbon Net Zero,” which prevent them from building a better life for their citizens. Shuttered farms the world over are throwing markets into flux and causing food prices to skyrocket, starving people experiencing poverty as a sacrifice to Mother Earth. These policies wreak havoc on the
most vulnerable, but the elites demand their rapid implementation and refuse to reevaluate based on any available evidence.

These anti-human tactics are the actual “illiberal” policies strangling the world, not anything from Bukele, President Donald J. Trump, Argentine President Javier Milei, or any other upstart populist at war with the political establishment. True democracy
means fulfilling the people’s mandate, regardless of the bleating from special interests, foreign powers, haughty academics, or other self-interested actors pushing their hegemony on the global stage.

Bukele’s success shows that the Right must be intently focused on the will of the people, even if that rankles the elitist class over threats to liberalism or democracy. Often, democracy can be anathema to freedom and civil society, as the Founding Fathers understood.

So-called liberal values have been taken to such an extreme that children are learning about vicious sodomy in kindergarten, and adolescents are being chemically castrated on the road to genital mutilation. Although we have the majority on our side, we must not fear being denounced as anti-democratic or illiberal when pursuing our noble ends.

We are the majority of ordinary, decent men and women of America, the backbone of this nation, and we owe it to our Creator to fulfill our righteous mandate if it offends the sensibility of the elites, that must be taken as a badge of honor.