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I didn't see this coming. Are we too critical of the World Economic Forum? The founder is open to right-leaning ideas and individuals. A movement at the forum dubbed Alt-Globalization.



https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/ec...globalists

Quote:

Over the past two years, the founder of the World Economic Forum has extended his hand to the right-wing advocates of alternative globalisation. The 80-year-old engineer and economist Klaus Schwab last year defended Trump and this year warmly introduced Bolsonaro for his Davos debut. Schwab has absorbed the talking points of right-wing critics into his own lexicon. He dropped a statement into a 2018 interview with the Wall Street Journal that echoed the Leave campaign, arguing that “people want to have control back. And they want not to be dictated to by Brussels in everything that they are doing.” Some have accused Schwab of faking populism. Yet there’s reason to believe he’s for real.

The cynical view: the WEF now has token populists in attendance to show how diverse they are in an auditorium full of lefties.