After Klaus Schwab, will the WEF move to the Right?

Klaus Schwab’s departure from the helm of the World Economic Forum has been met with excitement by sections of the Right. As the figurehead for globalism and the elite adoption of a laundry list of progressive causes, the German became something of a bogeyman for conservatives around the world.

But the WEF’s reputation as a progressive champion — which it owes to highly publicised interventions such as the promotion of eating insects and the promise that future generations will “own nothing and be happy” — misses the bigger picture.