The Price of American Authoritarianism

It would be naïve to assume that any liberal democracy (or any society) can long survive with all of its conceptual foundations gutted. Either it will collapse into civil conflict, or those foundations will be replaced brick by brick by the New Faith, until it is transformed into an unrecognizable edifice that is neither liberal nor democratic.... See more

The true task of Trumpism, according to Krein, is the “destruction of the soulless managerial class, a task inseparable from the assertion of a healthier culture and a stronger elite in its place.” His programmatic recommendation reads: “The political project of supreme importance is therefore the transformation of passive Middle Americans into a

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