Fukuyama’s Follies |
The irrelevant, failed social scientist took to social media to do what irrelevant failed social scientists do when they are desperate to re-establish a modicum of renewed relevance: he bashed President Trump.
Arthur Schaper | June 2, 2026
Irrelevant, failed social scientist Francis Fukuyama took to social media recently to do what irrelevant failed social scientists do when they are desperate to re-establish a modicum of renewed relevance: He bashed President Trump.
All the goodie-goodie talking heads who want a seat at the diminishing corporate media table do this. It’s like virtue-signaling, especially for Never-Trumpers and globalist-leaning political architects who were content to see the United States diminished into a mere “one among many,” ignoring its citizens, opening the borders, pushing a neutralized politics that turned profit into the only nominative value a citizen could have.
Fukuyama’s specific gripe focused on President Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping. He claimed that President Trump got rolled in the trade talks, and that his treatment at the Beijing summit was lined with subtle insults, disparaging the president and forcing his entourage to submit to quiet indignities.
But first, let’s reflect on why Fukuyama is irrelevant.
In 1989, euphoric like many policy wonks and pundits who witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of a strong (although globalist-aligned) United States, Fukuyama declared “The End of History” had come, even though he added a question mark to the title for respectability. (Just asking questions, perhaps?) Liberal democracy overcame autocracy and dictatorship. No political apparatus could conjure up a better system for governing a country and its people. All the other formulas: corporatism, fascism, communism, had clearly failed.
It’s important to recall that Fukuyama served in the Bush 41 administration, the same president who presided over the denouement of Soviet Communism. He would then announce the launching of a “New World Order,” one which countered the importance—even necessity—of different borders, languages, and cultures.
War in Iraq, the rise of radical Islam, and the resurgence of communist yearnings in Western countries all signaled that intellectuals’ heralding a world with free markets and........