Professor Tim Wilson Jul 2, 2024
but the right wing Populism that has taken root is based on simple solutions that may not work, and have often failed, in practice...
Liberalism is battered but not yet broken https://www.ft.com/content/ae7a3520-2516-4863-ba1e-c1cbd979ac98 2 July 2024 the world has also been in what Stanford University’s Larry Diamond calls a “democratic recession” for almost two decades. The power of autocratic China has risen. Vladimir Putin has throttled democracy in Russia. Authoritarianism is triumphing in many countries. The re-election of Donald Trump, after his attempt to overthrow the result of the last US presidential election, would also be a decisive change in the world’s most influential democracy.
Fukuyama brings out, for example, how the progressive left and reactionary right agree on the centrality of group identities to US politics. They agree, too, that their differences are over which groups hold power, rather than over how best to create equal opportunities for individuals. But clashes over power are a zero-sum game. Moreover, the “progressive” left seems to have forgotten that, in an identity war, minorities are almost certain to lose. Why are these activists unable to understand that obvious point?