Habeas corpus and individual rights in the West are being executed in the public square for all to see. Those who speak out against this process are denounced as hate preachers or subversive elements sponsored by hostile foreign governments. Populism, "A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people," has been transformed into a dirty word and any who advocate it are accused of being right-wing racist and sexist xenophobes.

The current Russian narrative is absurd for the fact that those making the accusations are the worst perpetrators of foreign election meddling in the history of the world. The establishment in the West openly rejects elections and vilifies referendums whose results are not to their liking, even - or especially when - they take place in their own countries.

The EU has codified the right of the unelected bureaucracy to ignore the will of the public and, where the obvious tyranny would be too much, have engineered second referendums which they conveniently win. By partnering with NGOs and co-opting private sector technology companies to achieve their governance goals, an openly corporatist and anti-democratic regime is being revealed to the world.