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What can we learn from our recent history? Of the way that the far left destroyed the center left? One big takeaway is that if a political movement does not police its ranks, does not draw lines, if it neglects to protect its borders, if it does not defend its sacred values, it cannot long endure.
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Bari Weissx.comFew people better than @anneapplebaum sum up the typically Western mix of ignorance, cluelessness, and thirst for imperialist destruction. We should celebrate the fact that we live in a post-Western world where these people’s ability to inflict damage is quickly diminishing.
Thomas Fazix.comIt 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
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
🚨 THIS IS A MASTERCLASS.
J.D. Vance, speaking to countless European leaders: Unfortunately, when I look to Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to the Cold War's winners... Brussels was warning citizens they plan to shut down social media during times of "civil unrest," if they see "hateful content"... See more
Eric Daughertyx.comHowever, since the global financial crisis of 2008 people all over the world have become increasingly disillusioned with the liberal story. Walls and firewalls are back in vogue. Resistance to immigration and to trade agreements is mounting. Ostensibly democratic governments undermine the independence of the judiciary system, restrict the freedom
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
While Mr. Goldhaber said he wanted to remain hopeful, he was deeply concerned about whether the attention economy and a healthy democracy can coexist. Nuanced policy discussions, he said, will almost certainly get simplified into “meaningless slogans” in order to travel farther online, and politicians will continue to stake out more extreme... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed
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