#illiberalism

#illiberalism

Absolutely. I think one of the most extraordinary things that's happened to the United States in recent years is that this demonization of "liberalism" that I associate with, let's say with Ronald Reagan-people saying "liberal, liberal, liberal," in order to say liberals and namby-pamby people are against our values, that started out as a political strategy. And it was about gaining short-term power by demonizing a certain sort of people, but then they tended to be fairly patrician elites.

The defeat of Viktor Orbán required not just an ordinary election campaign but the construction of a broad, diverse, and patriotic grassroots social movement, changing politics around the world.

National conservatism, the post-liberal movement that theorized the use of state power to wage right-wing culture war, stands historically triumphant. And yet, as the natcons met last week in downtown Washington to celebrate their conquest and stomp on the face of liberal democracy, they encountered a nettlesome problem. It was the same one that has popped up recurrently in right-wing nationalist movements over the centuries: what to do about the Jews.