Robert McLaws

Trump won. Electoral College, popular vote, Congress. Clean sweep. And yet, almost two years later, he's still under attack every single day. Courts, newsrooms, universities, Hollywood, NGOs. People keep asking me: how is that possible? He won. Doesn't winning mean you govern? No. Winning an election gets you the government. It doesn't get you the country. Gramsci understood this a century ago. Real power isn't in the Oval Office. It's in the institutions that manufacture "common sense": schools, universities, courts, media, culture. The left spent 60 years taking them, one trench at a time. A faculty lounge. A newsroom. A bar association. A grant committee. A casting office. So when a president walks in with a mandate from 77 million voters, the system does what any organism does with a foreign body. It rejects it. Judges block. Newsrooms spin. Universities sign open letters. Actors give speeches at award shows. Not because of some secret conspiracy. Because they all went to the same schools, read the same papers, applauded the same things. Same software, running on thousands of machines. That's inertia. And inertia is powerful. But it's not eternal. Look at what's happening. The money is moving. Elon bought Twitter and broke the information monopoly. This month, he reportedly put around $1 billion into Skydance, the giant born from Paramount's $111B takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. CBS, Warner Bros, HBO, now with Larry Ellison and Elon Musk behind them. Ten years ago, that was unthinkable. Today it's a press release. The trenches are being retaken. One by one. Exactly the way they were lost. Now France. We're a decade behind, and the disease is worse. Here the State doesn't just influence culture. It funds it. Cinema, theater, music, publishing, associations, all on public life support. When the subsidies get cut, and they will because the country is broke, something brutal is going to happen. We'll have to sit down with an entire generation of artists and tell them the truth. You were puppets in a system you never understood. You thought you were rebels. You were civil servants. The applause, the grants, the certainty of being on the right side of history: the whole world you lived in was built on a lie. And you were the first ones lied to. Same for the Éducation nationale. Inspect it. Say it clearly: teaching Marxism as moral truth to 15-year-olds is not OK. Then send teachers to do internships in real companies. Let them see a payroll. A cash crunch. A client who doesn't pay. Then let them teach economics. Not to humiliate anyone. Most of these people are sincere. That's the tragedy. They're not evil. They were formatted. But someone has to tell them. And when the drip gets unplugged, the people who can explain how wealth is actually created will write the next common sense. Gramsci wrote the playbook. We're just running it in reverse.