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OldSchoolLiberal's JournalMake Liberalism Great Again: a 6 Step Plan by TaraElla
This is going to be tough, but now that Donald Trump is president, there is no time to waste.
Following the publication of my previous article Donald Trump’s Victory is a Failure of Liberalism, I have been asking for and receiving responses. One of the most common problems I found with the reception of my argument was that there was much confusion about what liberalism was. Furthermore, a common response was simply that the word ‘liberalism’ means nothing these days. How sad. If we don’t have a good understanding of liberalism, liberty will never prevail. We would be doomed to an eternity of different Donald Trumps, some of the Right, some of the Left.
We need to start fixing things NOW.
Liberalism simply means for liberty. Anyone or anything that is for liberty is liberal. Anyone or anything that is against liberty is illiberal. It’s as simple as that. Liberalism is a very powerful ideology, because liberty is a powerful force.
It’s time to Make Liberalism Great Again. It’s time to Put Liberty First again. It’s humanity’s only hope now.
So how do we do that, exactly? Here are some suggestions. Note that most are not politically correct: you have been warned.
1. We need to reclaim liberalism from the authoritarian progressives.
https://medium.com/taraellas-liberal-conversation/make-liberalism-great-again-a-6-step-plan-4a268c0a74c
Donald Trumps Victory is a Failure of Liberalism by TaraElla
Ever since Donald Trump’s victory last year, progressives have been doing two things: mutually reassuring each other that we’re the sane people and Trump voters are the brainwashed people (who would soon wake up to the real Trump); and devising theories as to why Trump won and how to prevent it from happening again. The latter activity is much more constructive in my opinion: while the former is therapeutic, it distracts us from the reality that we have to face: Trump won because something went wrong, and if we don’t fix it, history will repeat again, probably in worse forms. As to why Trump won: there have been many theories flying around: that people don’t take feminism seriously, that people actually want some protectionism, that Hillary Clinton was seen as too establishment, that many voters are racist and would therefore love to see mass deportations, etc. All these theories are unsatisfying, however. They are superficial explanations of what we are seeing, and like the things people said in 2004 in the aftermath of the Bush victory, are likely to be either wrong or trivial in the whole scheme of things. But Donald Trump’s victory represents something more fundamental.
Donald Trump’s Victory is a Failure of Liberalism.
America never had a Trump before because it was, to a more or less extent, a liberal nation, with a liberal consensus. There was consensus that government power was limited, individual liberty was supreme, and by extension the arbitrary exercise of government power was unacceptable. But as America (and the rest of the West) had rapidly become less and less liberal in recent years, this consensus faded. Donald Trump won because liberalism failed. If liberalism had not failed, America would never have allowed Trump to win.
In truth, liberalism has been forgetting its roots for many years now.
https://medium.com/taraellas-liberal-conversation/donald-trumps-victory-is-a-failure-of-liberalism-d92ae2a2e6c3
Trumps Poor Legislative Scorecard By Seth Masket
The first hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency are nearly over, and, compared to his predecessors, he has shockingly few legislative achievements to brag on. While his own performance as president can’t be ignored as a culprit, there are larger structural impediments at work here.
The failure of the American Health Care Act brings into sharp focus the problems that both Trump and congressional Republicans face right now.
https://psmag.com/trumps-poor-legislative-scorecard-fc5b6c2432cc
Which recent world leader do you think Trump resembles?
I vote Australia's Abbott.
I hope I'm right - Abbott got removed after only 2 years.
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