Tucked close within the globalist heart beating inside the capital city of the United States is the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a think tank created by an act of Congress in 1968 that has wildly abused its federal commission. More commonly known as the Wilson Center, the self-proclaimed “fiercely nonpartisan” research organization declares it’s “our mission to help policymakers and stakeholders make sense of global developments.” Defending US national sovereignty, however, is not a component of that definition.
“Nearly all employees at the Wilson Center… were abruptly placed on leave [April 2] as part of a sweeping government downsizing campaign under the Department of Government Efficiency,” The Daily Caller reported April 4.
The reasoning was clear and to the point.
“The last thing that DC needs is yet another ‘think tank’ to create fake jobs for fake ‘experts’ with no other useful or employable skills – and certainly not at taxpayers’ expense,” Anna Kelly, deputy White House press secretary, told the news site.
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The progressive establishment and its dominant media allies immediately pursued their familiar tactic of feigning bewilderment as to why the Trump administration would target altruistic scholars in such a mean-spirited way.
“President Trump has shuttered a renowned center for scholarly research and a forum for understanding and exploring current public policy challenges,” Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) lamented. “Unless this action is reversed, our country – and our policymakers – will lose a valuable resource that bridges the world of learning with the world of public affairs.”
Should we take her word for it? It’s astonishing that progressive statists still cannot grasp that there is something called the internet today. We can check their work for ourselves since a wholly compromised Big Media will not do so.
John Thon Majok is the Director of Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative at the Wilson Center. He is an ardent backer of global mass migration. “As the global community observes World Refugee Day this week against the backdrop of more than 43 million refugees in the world, the current discourse must shift from a narrative that portrays them as passive, vulnerable victims to one that emphasizes their agency and potential,” Majok wrote for Wilson in June 2024.
Majok stated that migrants are a net financial positive to the US economy, even more so than the American people. “[R]esearch finds that ‘refugees possess valuable skills and talents that are beneficial to our society,’ including an entrepreneurial spirit surpassing that of native-born” citizens, he asserted.
Isn’t it wonderful to have your taxpayer money used to have John Thon Majok proclaim you are less useful to your country than Third World foreigners?
Lauren Herzer Risi is “Program Director, Environmental Change and Security Program” for the Center. In 2020, she co-authored a paper stating that mass migration into the “Global North” (i.e, the nations of the West) is a dire necessity due to climate change.
“[T]he fact remains that even if greenhouse gas emissions were reduced to zero tomorrow, the world would continue to warm for several more decades,” the paper states. “The rhetoric needs to shift from a fear of migrants and unregulated migration to one focused on the impact of investing in countries experiencing high levels of displacement and the facilitation of safe and sanctioned movement for those who need it most.”
Are you having trouble finding the “fiercely nonpartisan” part?
In 2019, “National Security Fellow” Patrick Liddiard mulled a question for the Center: “Is Populism Really a Problem for Democracy?” The not-so-shocking conclusion from a federally-funded DC think tank staffer: yes. Yes, it is.
Liddiard sweepingly denounced rightist populist movements throughout Europe as being in bed with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. It’s the why that is so telling. Nationalism itself causes this grave threat to democracy, Liddiard proclaimed.
“Moscow in particular has coordinated messaging with Europe’s far-right populists in exchange for Russian material support, based on a shared nationalist ideology that seeks to weaken liberal international institutions, including those that constrain Russian power,” he wrote.
President Trump proudly calls himself a nationalist. He is then, according to Wilson Center expert Liddiard’s “scholarship,” a threat to the “liberal international institutions” that are the bedrock of democracy.
But the Center’s subversion goes much further than merely providing a platform for the advancement of globalist ideas. It has actively helped to subtly inject the revolutionary social tenets of progressive internationalism into the formerly unique cultures of individual nation-states.
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In June 2012, Obama Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched the Women in Public Service Project at the Wilson Center’s Global Women’s Leadership Initiative. Ostensibly dedicated to the furthering of feminist “inclusive” policies, Hillary’s pet project promoted abortion on a global scale.
In 2019, the Center hosted an event titled “Achieving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All.” The gathering was sponsored by the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission, a venture of the Guttmacher Institute, an organization founded in 1968 as a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood. Yes, the federally chartered Wilson Center was working hand in hand with Planned Parenthood’s longtime research organization.
“Denying safe abortions is a violence,” a speaker exclaimed at the affair. “Panelists agreed that the fight for reproductive justice expands beyond abortion. At the core of reproductive justice is the interconnection of health and human rights,” the Wilson Center write-up declared.
And here’s something truly sinister. In 2019, the Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program enthusiastically endorsed the use of propaganda in mass entertainment programming to produce social change.
“The Power of Serial Dramas: Popular Characters Help Change Attitudes and Behaviors,” reads the headline to a Center report on the endeavor. The article referred to a Wilson Center event that advocated harnessing movies and television to promote a loaded political and social agenda.
“We are all convinced that educational entertainment is the way to go now,” Anselme Muzalia Wimye, Program Quality Director at Search for Common Ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was quoted as saying. Subtitles for the Wilson Center article are shocking in their blunt authoritarian tone: “Emotional Response as a Change Agent” and “Narrative Persuasion.”
Is it sheer hubris or a child-like failure to acknowledge opposing points of view? Either way, the progressive establishment is so out of touch it actually believes it can pass off the infiltration of the government and other institutions by hardline ideological activists as nothing more than the salutary actions of civil workers only interested in the greater good.