A thread about whether the global – and American – center-left needs a different kind of liberalism. These are thoughts triggered by Trump’s victory in the United States and the swing against mainstream incumbents in many other elections around the world.
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An additional hypothesis: Liberalism today lacks of a clear enemy. The threat of communism disciplined income inequality, apartheid laws fuelled civil rights, etc.
Today's liberals use academic jargon to explain their enemy.
Thoughts?
Solution is to repair institutions, make government more efficient and more responsive to citizens. Evidence based, not wish list.
Proposing programs is easy, design and implementation is hard.
The way I see it, american problem is two-party winner-takes-all system.
While in Europe 20% of far-right radicals are just absorbed into mainstream and mitigated by it. See The Netherlands for example.