Cavuto: Who Will Step Up in This Crisis?
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Someone, anyone...lead.
If there is anything that came through loud and clear in these volatile markets this week, it is that.
We're sick of this.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}And sick of them.
The leaders we think are responsible for this...
Or at the very least, incapable of fixing this.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}That is why markets sell off. There is simply no one stepping up.
But someone will, my friends.
Someone will.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Always happens.
Every crisis. All crises.
Someone steps up.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Someone fills the void.
Someone you don't see.
Someone maybe you "do" see but don't think has a chance.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Like I said, it has happened before.
Sometimes the guy's right in front of our eyes.
Like back in 1992, and all the Democrats then challenging a supposedly un-challengable George Bush senior, were called the Seven Dwarfs.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Until one of those dwarfs emerged. His name was Bill Clinton.
And soon, he wasn't a dwarf. Soon, he was a president.
Say what you will of Bill Clinton, he just emerged when no one thought any Democrat would.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Weird time. Not a unique time.
But a familiar pattern in desperate times.
Like in 1860 when voters turned to a back woodsman with limited political experience but a lot of common sense. His name was Abraham Lincoln.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Or in 1932 when, in the midst of a depression, they turned to a guy named a New York governor named Roosevelt.
Or in England in the dourest of days, turning to the most dour-looking of characters...Winston Churchill.
Many are dismissed by the establishment press in their day...but out of that built-in bias emerge some unlikely characters in their day.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Ronald Reagan in 1980.
A novice senator named John Kennedy in 1960.
I'm not here to judge their politics again, just their rise.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Just the fact that someone rises.
Someone you like. Maybe someone you don't like.
Sometimes, someone in retrospect you wish never rose at all.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Like a fellow named Adolf Hitler in a desperate Germany.
Or Benito Mussolini in a desperate Italy.
Or Ayatollah Khomeini in a very desperate Iran.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Characters in their moment...who seize that moment.
And seized history.
I like to think that for every bad one...we get some good ones. And history, and good, prevails.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}It depends on who ultimately prevails.
Likely someone dismissed now.
Likely someone right in front of us now.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}We're just not looking.
Gosh knows the media's too busy dismissing.
They'll miss it.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}They always do.
Because the silly masses always prove them wrong.
It's not only hysterical.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Truth is my friends...it is history.