“European peoples are largely fleeing from the future America preaches and promises.”
“As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy,” writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, “it is illiberal democracy.”
Galston’s diagnosis is not wrong, and his alarm is not misplaced.
Yet why does America’s great export, liberal democracy, which appeared to be the future of the West if not of mankind at the Cold War’s end, now appear to be a church with a shrinking congregation?
Why is liberal democracy losing its appeal? ...
Ironic that we have too much democracy but we're never allowed to vote on migration. All good points, but if America is lagging so far behind Europe in our clueless liberalism, why have we elected a nationalist and Western Europe has not? Europe has awakened, but Merkel and Hollande are still in office and May is trying to fight the terrible non-liberal haters--and Europe continues to let Muslims pour in and pour in. Maybe this will all change soon. It must.
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