A Renewed Liberalism Can Meet the Populist Challenge
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A Renewed Liberalism Can Meet the Populist Challenge
Posted by Free-Minimum-5844
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Acemoglu, our beatified author of *Why Nations Fail*, is practically updating the sidebar with this piece.
>In the United States, establishment liberalism became the more or less bipartisan governing philosophy following the New Deal and World War II. Republicans from Dwight Eisenhower to Richard Nixon accepted it.
>The Barry Goldwater-Ronald Reagan conservative revolution rolled back some of the New Deal-era regulations, reduced taxes and favored large corporations, but three pillars of establishment liberalism grew in strength: (1) **cultural liberalism**, with emphasis on individualism, autonomy and progressive cultural attitudes; (2) the **empowerment of educated elites**, in the form of both technocracy and meritocracy, but going beyond just technical matters and extending to issues like moral values; and (3) an emphasis on **establishing procedures** for predictable application of laws and regulations.
(Emphasis mine)
The problem is that a lot of democrats don’t *want* liberalism, and if anything see liberalism as part of the problem, and instead don’t want to stop populism, they just want to do blue maga shit and do a left wing populism