The ideas themselves are something different, however. They have been around as long as the League of Nations, morphing into the United Nations, and since then into post-WW2 political consolidation and the European Union. That class of European elites has been around for much longer than the WEF, so the emphasis on the WEF/Schwab is misplaced. They are simply one symptom, or one manifestation, of a much wider European ideology.
The good news is that as Brexit showed, the citizens of each individual nation have the ability to opt out of that at any time. So thateams our focus should be on our own domestic political situation rather than on European boogeymen.
If they were really intelligent (never mind that they wouldn’t be for this kind of thing if they WERE intelligent) they wouldn’t have someone like Klaus Schwab sounding so much like a Nazi who managed to escape into obscurity after WWII popping off on the world stage.