President of Argentina, Javier Milei, is having a ball at Davos.

‘The mental virus of Woke ideology is an epidemic which is destroying the foundations of Western Civilisation,’ said Milei, to his captive and uncomfortable audience.

The World Economic Forum’s yearly love-in rightly attracts Bond villain comparisons. Most of our insipid political leaders make the trek so they can bask in the presence of bureaucratic power and listen to rich people lay down their roadmap for humanity without reference to us – the peasants.

Mr Milei goes there to chide the untouchable and say all the things we wish we could.

He is the Ricky Gervais of politics, sent to emotionally injure the enemies of liberty.

When justifying his position on the stage, Milei takes care to frame his ideological position around the terrible state he found Argentina in before becoming President. He says that Argentina suffered 100 years of economic failure and made poor decisions when it came to global conflicts.

‘Argentina was the ghost of Western Christmases yet to come…’

The haunting image is a reality for the UK following the election of Keir Starmer and the near total breakdown of British society. There is a feeling that, with one-in-twelve people in London suspected of being an illegal migrant, their nation has been invaded.

Mr Milei goes on to describe a new type of politics emerging on the world stage, one where leaders tell their people the truth, having faith that they are smart enough to understand what must happen next.

‘I do not feel alone, because throughout this year I’ve found companions in the fight for the ideas of freedom in all corners of the planet: from the wonderful Elon Musk to the fierce Italian lady, my dear friend Giorgia Meloni. From Nayib Bukele in El Salvador to Victor Orbán in Hungary. From Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, and Trump in the United States.’

It is awkward that Australia does not make the freedom highlight list. We are not even a footnote.

‘Slowly, an alliance is forming among nations that believe in the ideas of freedom. And slowly, what seemed like an absolute global hegemony of the Woke-left in politics, in educational institutions, in the media, in supranational organisations, or in forums like Davos … has begun to crumble. Hope is beginning to be glimpsed for the ideas of freedom as they start to emerge.’

He warns that the battle is not yet won and, ‘…until our ideas become the common currency in the halls of events such as this one, we can’t let our guard down.’

And now for the Ricky Gervais portion of the speech:

‘I must say that forums like this one have been protagonists and promoters of the sinister agenda of Wokeism that is doing so much damage to the Western world.’

Ouch.

‘Few will deny that winds of change are blowing in the West. There are those who resist change, those who grudgingly accept it, but accept it nonetheless. There are new converts who appear when they see it is inevitable. And finally, there are those of us who have fought our entire lives for change to arrive.’

He goes on:

‘These are times when the rules get rewritten, and therefore these are times that reward those who have the courage to take risks.’

There could not be a better example of rewriting rules than Donald Trump issuing Executive Orders to flip the culture war on its head, immediately deleting Woke from America. That is not a revolution, it is a bloodless system purge.

Here is a message that feels as if it was penned with Peter Dutton in mind.

‘Much of the free world still prefers the comfort of what is familiar, even though it may be the wrong path. And they will insist on applying the recipes of failure. The great burden that is the common denominator among the countries and institutions that are failing is the mental virus of Woke ideology. This is the great epidemic of our time that must be cured … until we remove this abhorrent ideology from our culture, our institutions, and our laws, Western Civilisation – and even the human species – will not be able to return to the path of progress demanded by our pioneering spirit. It is essential to break these ideological chains if we want to usher in a new golden age.’

His speech is long and relentless in its attack on the enemies of freedom – which appears to include most of the people in the room with him. He does make some additional interesting points. The first is name-dropping the power grab of the elite, accusing them of ‘taking advantage of times of crisis’ and using them to ‘accumulate power’. This is true not only of Covid, but of each terror attack or moment of civil unrest where the first victim is always our privacy laws.

He also described social justice as ‘an idea that serves as a gold mine for bureaucrats who aspire to omnipotence’.

Wokeism is defined simply as the reversal of Western values.

Milei takes apart every sacred cow of the progressive agenda. As an example, he accuses the mass migration process as being driven by guilt instead of the national interest. ‘Since the West is supposedly the root cause of all the world’s evils in history, it must redeem itself by opening its borders to everyone, which leads to a form of reverse colonisation that resembles collective suicide. So, this is how we now see images of hordes of immigrants who abuse, assault, or even kill European citizens, whose only sin was not adhering to a particular religion. But when someone questions these situations, they are immediately labelled as racists, xenophobic, or even as Nazis.’

He is even more severe on the rise in transgender ideology. ‘Only now are we beginning to see the effects of an entire generation that has mutilated their bodies, encouraged by a culture of sexual relativism, and these people will have to spend their entire lives in psychiatric treatment to cope with what they have done to themselves. Yet no one dares speak about these issues.’

It is tempting to publish his entire speech, instead, we will leave you with this:

‘This organisation [Davos and the World Economic Forum], along with the most influential supranational bodies, have been the ideologues of this barbarity. Multilateral lending organisations have been the instruments of extortion, while many national governments, and especially the European Union, have acted as their armed wing … As Churchill once said, the farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. In other words, we must reconnect with the forgotten truths of our past to untangle the knots of the present.’