Harvard University invited the woman responsible for the European refugee crisis, who fights to this day for the failed globalist policies favored by European elitists, to give its 2019 commencement address.

What was German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s message to the graduates of America’s most prestigious institution of higher learning on the most important occasion of their young lives as they embark on what will likely be highly successful careers in commerce, arts, sciences, and more?

Together, she told them, we can undermine President Trump.

Harvard’s decision to invite Merkel should come as no surprise. In an age when the political winds on both sides of the Atlantic are blowing fiercely against the globalist, open-borders liberal consensus that Harvard’s graduates have been so instrumental in forming and enforcing, Merkel is a rare exception.

As the nations of Europe increasingly demand their sovereignty and autonomy back from the European Union, Merkel insisted that the mere self-determination of peoples cannot be allowed to get in the way of the globalists’ supranational project. During Merkel’s record-setting tenure in office, Germany has been the driving force in punishing smaller EU member states who refuse to cede ever more power to the European Parliament in Brussels and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.

When the citizens of Europe looked aghast while hundreds of thousands of military-aged men used the excuse of a far-away war to breach the gates of Europe, it was Merkel who laid out the welcome mat and prevented a coordinated effort to turn them back. “Mother” Merkel’s open-borders philosophy facilitated a migrant crisis in which thousands have died seeking the false promise of an easy life on the German taxpayers’ dime.

Merkel misled the German people, who trusted her to fight multiculturalism and end the lies that underpinned mass migration. In 2010, she told them she was a conservative who acknowledged that “the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other... has failed, utterly failed.”

A few years later, she was not only allowing record numbers of non-Europeans into Germany, she was demanding that smaller, weaker countries follow her lead or face financial consequences.

Within months of her fateful 2015 decision to inexplicably choose globalism over nationalism, over 1,200 German women and girls reported crimes in a mass attack on New Year's Eve in Cologne, half of them of a sexual nature. The vast majority of the suspected criminals were foreign men. It was the start of a shocking wave of migrant-fueled violence and crime, particularly in the form of rape and other sexual crimes.

To this day, Merkel refuses to apologize for the horror that her decision unleashed on Europe.

It was deceitful political acts like these, perpetrated by American liberals with the same fervor that Merkel has shown on the other side of the Atlantic, that Trump railed against when he ran for president in 2016. The "make America great again" movement, in large part, is a reaction to globalist lies such as Merkel’s.

That’s why Merkel and other globalists have come to recognize that their main enemy is their own people, as was the case with the populist uprising in Germany by the AfD Party and rebels in Merkel's own Christian Democratic Union. Merkel reiterated this theme during Harvard’s commencement.

While she avoided directly naming Trump or the AfD, Merkel condemned “walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness” and claimed "more than ever, our way of thinking and our actions have to be multilateral rather than unilateral, global rather than national."

International commiseration sessions like this make the globalist elite — so perfectly personified in the thousands of Harvard graduates assembled before a foreign leader — feel secure in their power, as though they still have unquestioned mastery of the world.

Their need to reassure themselves of this speaks to how rapidly the edifice of globalism is crumbling.

The people of Europe will not stop noticing and revolting against the loss of their sovereignty any more than the people of America will. After decades of acquiescence to the global elite, people on both sides of the Atlantic will no longer accept a free-trade-worshipping economic regime that sacrifices jobs to developing nations simply to benefit a transnational elite.

Angela Merkel might be right at home preaching to the Harvard choir, but the church they attend is losing people in the pews rapidly. Thanks to a new awakening where people are reclaiming the power that the global elites co-opted from them, Trump and his counterparts across the pond are leading them to a political realignment that will prove to make speeches like Merkel’s Harvard commencement address nothing more than a commiseration session about the old days of centralized power that’s given way to the power of the people.

Jenna Ellis Rives (@realJennaEllis) is a member of the Trump 2020 Advisory Board. She is a constitutional law attorney, radio host, and the author of The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.