‘New Leviathan’ Progressivism & GOP Surrender

‘New Leviathan,’ Progressivism and the GOP Surrender

"'Does it continue with the progressive policies of the past several years, dating back to the first years of the second Bush administration, or does it return to the classical liberal model' of lower, flatter taxes, strong property rights and free markets?"*

Progressivism has become the core narrative of America, and it has turned out to be fatal. On social progress the GOP basically says, "Me too (if not so much)!" That the GOP has surrendered to the liberal/Cultural Marxist narrative is the reason that most of today's "conservative" leaders in politics and the media hang almost everything on free markets, less regulation, less taxes, anti-environmentalism, saber rattling and assorted social issues.

When was the last time Mr. Romney mentioned the Third World invasion with any force? It doesn't seem to occur to such conservatives, much less to neocons, that when Western people fall, so will Western civilization, as will free enterprise, to become just one more amusing exotic notion of those bygone charmingly individualistic Westerners. "Not only did they not unite to prevent their own extinction, they wore their indifference to the fate of their grandkids' grandkids as a badge of pride!," scholars of future civilizations will incredulously laugh.  


*Book Review: ‘The New Leviathan’
By Ben Boychuk - Special to The Washington Times Monday, September 10, 2012

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/10/book-review-the-new-leviathan/#ixzz26PZX0CUf