Agree to disagree. I sure am grateful that were are all different. I mean, can you think what it would be if we all thought and acted the same way? You are the illiterate fool…. The polio vaccine you mention took researchers nearly 20 years to make safe and effective, the flu, fifteen years. You have every right to commit your health to the lab-rat cohort, but no right to compel other to do so. U r the fool.
Back in the day when we were young u had vaccinations that were created by mostly good people that was not overcome by greed and money.
U look at how many vaccines there were then now look at how many there are now. These vaccines r made to kill the people within 3 to 5 years. If u have cancer it makes the cancer worse and eventually u die. Then the doctors say u died from the cancer and it cannot be traced to the vaccine. U need to research and not believe the government. U r a big fool if u think these people will not lie to u.
Even doctors r paid to lie to u. Research Research. Nothing infuriates the left more than being forced to acknowledge reality. There was absolutely nothing about the Trump administration that ever reflected a limited government. It was all the same old Reaganist wealth tax cuts, robbing the poor to make the rich even richer. The Democratic and Republican Party are just different sides of the same coin.
A different stink, same pile of shit. If the nation had any sense at all it would throw the both parties from the steps of government instead of blindly recycling a bunch of long failed false choices.
Both ideologies are a hollow disease upon citizen, country, and constitution. God is a very evil filthy scumbag himself for making these liberals destroying Our America now. What in the world is up with that anyway? Everything that Trump really did was very excellent, and once Biden came in which he is doing everything the opposite of what Trump did.
And now they keep letting them cross the boarder which we will never ever be able to have this very horrible Virus under control. If Trump was still President which this would had never ever happened, and the wall would had very easily been completed as well.
How could you possibly say that about the very God Who made you and keeps your ungrateful, petty and rotting self in existence? No one was born a a raging liberal; no one was born a democrat, or republican. No one was born hating or loving Donald Trump. No one was born supporting or protesting anything. You are who you are because of your decisions and choices.
I hope that someday you come to your senses. But I am Liberal. He is the only president to have been impeached twice. Yes, he did. A few hundred thousand who let emotions rule all their actions going crazy with panic for a few months or , dead. Gee, I wonder which most people would choose.
And communist bastige Biden would have resulted in fewer deaths, right DumDum2? Because everyone knows a virus behaves differently depending on who is the president. You people are idiots. You sacks of ship are going to get your comeuppance and that will be a great day. Another living in a utopia bubble. Impeached by wacky Dems with nothing but lies. Robert Mullers report showed no Russia collusion.
Yep not a peep from pudding eaten Biden 1 covers his son who media said laptop was Russia disinformation, which was later proved it was legitiment yet not a peep from Biden.
Then when Trump has suspicions and feels it was really stolen from him it is a threat to our democracy. You people keep living in your bubble of utopia and one day it will POP and then you can come live in the real world with the rest of us. You need to stop spreading lies about Trump. The left made up lies about Trump and you should as a Christian pray for our Country. They started impeachment before even asking him for the transcript or asking the president of the Ukraine what was said it was easily disproven.
Jan sixth impeachment was bogus because he was saying to fight like hell in court then go to the capital to cheer on the good Congress men and women and they would go together.
They bailed out rioters and one of them that Kamala bailed out killed people after being let out. Hillary Clinton was on tape laughing at the fact that she got a rapist off because she tore down the victim and admitted she knew he was guilty and was laughing and proud of it.. People who had friends and loved ones held as prisoners in other hostile countries some where captured some tried to preach Christianity in places like Korea they went to Trump for help and unlike other presidents who turned their back on Americans and left them behind he did whatever it took and got them out.
He also started a program to get out some prisoners that was in for life because of drugs due to Biden and his 94 bill that had shown good and redeemed behavior. He called and meet with victims of all kinds of stuff to see how he could help and also made the boarder safe and threw special ceremonies for new immigrants getting green cards. He hand wrote letters to every family of a dead service members family and made each one different than called to see if they needed anything.
Democrats make him out to be monsterous but does all of that sound like how the media made him out to be? I see through them they are the true evil.
Democrats are all in changing America to something else and that is complete control of everything. They dont even hide it really. They want no more freedoms for Americans.
We are going to get what we voted for complete chaos. Prices on everything is going to go up not a little but a lot. Gas will be all time high. Food will be shortages. Who knows about jobs and a lot more worse stuff for Americans. I bet Democrat voters would still vote for him today. Tell me why. Is that why you support Mark of the Beast Joe Biden? Strong liberal Christian?
Sorry, but no. Liberals support, even encourage abortion. They think abortion up until birth is quite alright. Murder is a sin. The brutal murder of an unborn child is unthinkable. Stop calling yourself a Christian.
What about biden releasing all the Mexicans and Afghans into the United States that have not been vaccinated dumb ass. You are a liar, An anti-American, anti-white, neo-fascist democratic scum.
You are not a Christian. You are a traitor. Stop looking at CNN your getting brainwashed just like the rest of this country, voting for a senile bastard to run this country because of their selfish needs without thinking about the country as a whole which is presently causing its demise.
Logic has to be dominant when voting for a person and a political party to run this country. Burning peoples property, attacking the police and those in authority because of their hatred taught by the communist infiltrated schools and colleges.
Wanting to defund the police who risk their lives everyday to protect the people against those who would commit crimes against them. Democratic run states not enforcing the law but enabling instead to cause innocent people to be harmed and killed. Having no bail so the bastards who commit crimes can continue their destruction and harm to the people.
Poisoning the minds of our youth and creating hatred amongst one another which for years the people of this country tried to correct which has succeeded to some degree only to have these Marxist communist bastards to try to reverse all that by their hatred and lies making those that live here hate this country and its founders. Promoting evils of the past to be repeated. No one is perfect but logic must prevail along with our freedoms!
Did you read what you wrote before you posted it?? Then you told us what we already know about both presidents. You might want to start off by blaming our education system too, who actually gives children who are learning how to SPELL, points even if they spell the word WRONG, just so long as they get a few of the letters right in the word correct! That os what the schools jave produced, not scholars but what we call snowflakes.
Everyone gets a trophy at the playoff. What incentive does that give a kid to work harder as a team to win next year. NONE, we created another team of snowflakes. God knows these type people are going to have a hard time in life. The bible is a thousands of years old and should have nothing to do with modern political leanings. Please stop insulting God. Can you provide a well-reasoned and reliable methodology for establishing belief that your deity even exists? How does one go about believing what you believe?
You sound a little misguided. The election has nothing to do with Covid. People who did not want to stand in voting lines risking the chance of catching Covid voted by mail in their State if allowed. Trump wanted all counting of votes to be completed on Nov.
He won in after mail-in ballots were counted and Hillary conceded 3 days later when that process was over.
In Louis DeJoy, a Trump supporter was made postmaster general and he fouled up the post office so that mail-in ballots did not make it to destinations well after it should. The rogue news people you speak of are who exactly? Not a single seated President has ever sat in during that closed process in just receiving the electoral college votes.
It empowers greed and hypocrisy, which Jesus repeatedly spoke against, and eschews humility and love, which Jesus promoted and exemplified throughout His ministry. I will try to do the same. You are the dumbing down of America. You do the work of the oppressor under the guise of righteousness, but in the end you are just buying lies and selling your soul. If you are not, you should be.
People that support Trump, an evil man, that is a fascist racist that planned and attacked our own government. An all white gang of thugs killed 3 policemen and injured capital policemen. This was planned by Trump and Steve Bannon and other Nazis that are causing a 2nd civil war. You say liberals are ruining America.
Are you that stupid? A wall was so stupid. Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall. Mexico laughed at him and they should. You are in a cult that is just a way for Trump and his minions to steal trillions of dollars and sell, out our country. Please go and see a phsyciatrist. What kind of ineptitude do you have to have, not to see that tRump was not qualified to be the President of the United States??
You make yourself look like a damn fool! If Trump is your hero you are fucked up. He is only a so called conservative because it is the handle he is currently using to serve his own ends. He will glom onto anything that serves his vanity and that is simply it in a nutshell.
He is an empty individual, a vulgar,crude, dense and unread knuckle dragger. He is cunning not smart and flattery will get you everywhere with the likes of him. That is why authoritarians like Putin can wrap him around their finger. Just a Putz not a President.
Why do honest men and women of good will dislike trump: It is because he is neither honest nor a man of good will. Both conservaties and progressive people know that the waste of 4 years at a critIcal time in history has dearly cost us all. Devouring future generations to keep trump in cheap suits is bad politics and poor judgment.
Border children Afghanistan Higher prices And sooooooooo much more, open your eyes. Wow you sound like a child. Go play in your sandbox and let educated people make the decisions.
They say by the end of the year there will easily be 2. They have been peeing in bags but nothing from the kids in Obama cages people say anything like a. Why would any person that loves the country go from energy independent to energy dependent in the first week of being president. They confirmed the laptop was his like we thought it was someone else who followed hunter around taking pictures of him smoking crack and being naked with his scared looking niece on the bed.
There is no waking slime like Michael above. That is the definition of insanity. You cannot reason with them and you cannot wake them with reason. And so we have a booby prize for a president. He could not get hired by to sweep-up because he could not be trusted without someone to keep track of him, DUH! You need to see a psych doctor for Trump-Derangement Syndrome, because you have a classic case of it! Yet people like you keep screaming bout civil war and killing and exiling all the liberals and progressives because a guy who screamed 7 months before the election that he would only lose if they cheated more than him as the only fake votes found by conservative auditors are trump votes, hm brainwashed you into believing him, and donating to a man who brags about being a billionaire all your money to help him prove fraud while not spending a dime on proving said fraud and making taxpayers pay for all his audits.
Whatever you say, bud. You are more deranged than him. You idiot! Thank you, Michael! What planet do you live on. The ones that impeached and made up and spread lies all over the internet was the Democrats and they are the problem. If you believe the lies on the news and the Democrats maybe I can sell you a Bridge. This is an absurd lie. Trump was making America great and quality of life was rising.
People like you are all an embarrassment to the USA. You have no values, no ehtics, no morals, and no respect to other Black, Asian, Latino, Whites or any other race that live among us as neighbors. If he did something why is it I ask everyone to list what he did bad and I get no answer yet when they ask what good things he did I can list so many things to prove he was a good man not by words which means nothing but by actions.
Bidens done a lot and I can remember especially since I have to deal with it every day when I go to the store or get gas. Energy independent vs getting everything from China. As usual Americans are last again. Joe Biden currently is enforcing policy that undermines Americans. The likelihood that the progressives green new deal will turn the tide of climate change is slim to none.
Face it out destiny here is doomed. Especially with greedy self centered foolish leadership. Progressives plan to save the world will only break the back of America.
And if you like that idea consider That without the stabilizing good of America in our world the world will revert to chaos with China leading us to Hell. Good luck! Donald Trump was given over a half a trillion dollars by his father, a racist. Trump lost all of that money plus a lot more. He wants only wealthy white people to be able to vote and not pay taxes.
A civil war has already started in the USA, which is what trump wanted. Civilized people will fight back because they are true patriots. People like you actually believe the election was stolen, without 1 ounce of proof. Every time you try and say that a certain state did something wrong, not 1 time was it ever proven, in fact all audits have shown that President Biden won by more.
Rabid dogs are put down and all idiots that still support the treasonous nazi are more dangerous than rabid dogs. Do not think for a minute that libedral patriots will fight for our country. Evils of socialism? You are a brainwashed fool who can only assign words like evil to thing you lack either the will or intellect to comprehend. There is no blind hatred for Trump, there is eyes-wide-open recognition of a con-man pulling the wool over the eyes of suckers like you. Be careful with such people!
Just tread with caution, money is hard to get! Patient is a virtue, be patient! You came here. You conquered… absolutely nothing. Very intelligent yourself apparently. Obviously no recollection of history either because either: 1. True history has never been taught to you? You care not to research a thing and would rather be fed by the establishment like a good sheep?
Us real Americans are trying to give you a better feed here. You can Trust that news. We know where you stand and you best hope your roots are strong. Because you will be up-ended. What was that word salad supposed to be? Did you have a stroke Church, or did your phone? That explains you voting for Trump and falling for hid cons. If you voted for Joe Biden you may need psychiatric help.
You voted for the worst president in US history because Trump is living in your brain rent free. The man served this country well and I appreciate his constant bullying of the elitist left, their propoganda machine, and calling out hypocrites in the swamp.
You are an authoritarian loser, you think you have the right to tell people how to think, you are the reason we have a second amendment. The history you claim to know is the whitewashed American lie, taught to, and believed by, bleating fools like you who desperately want to keep your head buried in the sand. Stop being a little crybaby weakling victim coward, pull up your big-boy or big-girl pants, and try to accept reality.
Your grammar is trash. If you Look up Envy, a deadly sin you might see a picture of Joe Biden. So, where is that money??? Jade, Seek help. TDS is a real problem in our country and is now treated by psychologists and psychiatrists as a dangerous mental disorder. If you need help finding a therapist you can PM me. Crushes what? Trump not only accomplished nothing, he unaccomplished more than anyone else. Anyone who supports this Con is in a Cult!
Stop with your hypocrisy, open your eyes and more so……try reading something intelligent!!!! My mother always told me that profanity is a sign of ignorance. I think your post has just proved her point. You should find a new place to live — preferably away from the United States. Or lying. Just the fact of making a general statement saying the left hate America is wrong..
I never liked Trump prior to his run for President. And look into who he admires. Amen brother…. He is involved in a crime syndicate with Hunter and his brother Jim. He is a liar, a plaguerist, totally lacking in character as his crime family has exploited their influence to enrich themselves.
The liberals have done a masterful job of brainwashing college kids and so many others to hate America and adopt some crazy idealized utopia. Think for yourself and vet everything this administration says.
God is Real , the liars and thieves want you to believe them , that sadly makes all the money spent on your education a sad story to your parents!
Sick and SAD! Miles, We do not hate socialists, we hate was socialists stand for. We do not want the government mandating or creating laws that will prohibit speech. We do not want our constitutional rights infringed on. You believe the opposite and it is concerning. You think people should lose their jobs for not sticking a needle in their arm. You think people should speak how YOU want them to speak.
You stand for chaos, you stand for the swamp, you stand for China. You are a legend in your own mind , congrats! Wow, liberal much, you just proved the point. You must be a stupid ignorant lil piece of shit pal. Would love have this dialogue in face to face fashion. Probably that, and as well you have few real friends or worth.
You have no idea if what it is to be American. If you believe in the Lefts ideas and where they headed, you will never find it. You crybaby conservative anti-patriots have none of the facts and all of the dumb. Look what that idiot is doing to the States , to all of us you dumbass!!! Trump is the only one that did a damn thing to make sure our economy was good!!!
The joy in my heart right now makes me want to tell everyone about the solution temple how he was able reunite both of us back together again with his reunion love spell permanently. Qanon, right wing, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers are all the same, they are riff raff that failed grade 2 and they are holding the country hostage with their constant nonsense. If we are lucky darwin will act swiftly. Maybe you should educate yourself outside of the literal crap that the mainstream media tells you.
Maybe post a few more words next time. Anyone can do what you did. Radical, socialist, communist, extremist, anti-american, neo-facists…. It is truly sad how the left has indoctrinated their sheep into believing the gutless crap ideologand disease called liberalism.
He is a very sick man God help him and as one who voted Republican most of our lives, we will NOT stoop to his lying, conning, racist, women hating crap and demoralizing the disabled just to name a few of his nasty ways.
You are a toxic joke and everyone around you knows it. Another leftist with hopes of death to others -Come and get some big boy. God forbid you try to go after a patriot. They will never come after you in public. The amount of pussy ass maniac libs I have had to put in their place this year is overwhelming.
I have begged these idiots to hit me, try and beat me into submission and see what happens. We have a long road ahead but we need to continue to stand our ground for freedom. Patriot, HA. Patriotism requires sacrifice for the good of your fellow American, not lip service to some fantasy of an idealized America that has never really existed.
God forbid your dumb mouth gets you in a real situation where you had to back up your empty threats, turd. Lol dude, before spewing nonsense about the 2nd grade — YOU should probably consider retaking it. Seriously, please reflect on this and come up with an original thought.
I cant stand either party anymore but the flagrant abuse from the left makes it hard not to speak out about how corrupt they truly are.. This brings me to another lefty fake news narrative — the leftist media said Trump was a dictator? I do not recall Trump ever mandating anything at the citizen level. Biden has in very short order though. Again, please think about these hypocrisies. Im sorry but facts do not care about your feelings..
Trump commanded the respect of foreign leaders. There were hardly any foreign conflicts for 4 years.. Democrats want pure control of every aspect in your life.. Although this will be very hard to overcome as the media continues to perpetuate lies and control the narrative.
The hypocrisy of the left is startling. Why are so many vaccinated people contracting covid still? Now liberals want the government to give them insane amounts of cash for a vaccine thats not as effective as it should be? Whatever happened to their stance against big pharma? Libs blow with the wind. No honor, no trust, no real leadership- just power hungry crazies.
Common sense my ass. This is all logical fallacy and conclusion jumping. You are incredibly biased and appear to have no idea. The vast majority of those unvaccinated in the south are black democrats. This is not actually true. I double dipped.. My question is.. Why are you threatened by someone who poses no threat to you? Next largest group is under 40 Women of Color.
Last I checked that demographic more often than not vote Dem. And President Biden is dictating how American Citizens live their lives. Dream on. This left wing dream always turns into a nightmare. How many people are crashing China,N. Korea, Cuba, Venezuela wanting to create a better life there? No Darwin…. Lol you people make me literally sick. The idiot you elected handed billions of dollars in our weapons to a terrorist group who took over Afghanistan, oh, did I say handed he got punked.
Are you really this stupid? Anti vaxxers? You understand that all these supposed to get wing elite are all getting filthy rich off all of you?
You get that right? Look at what happens when faced with real life situations, they crumble. I never thought I would see the day when I would be ready to separate this country. I keep thinking you liberals are smart enough to see what will happen if you keep poking the bear with a stick. People died because of your ignorance. By your own man or woman.
And do it quick before you idiots ruin this country. Jesus is our only savior We have the right to make personal decisions about our body not the government. A hater of capitalism and every single beautiful principle upon which our country was founded. Always trying to change our great nation into something our founders never intended it to be.
We are all safer and better off their coffee is good. Ignirant much? As for education? You might find that the rural red states kids do best in school. Grow up. Get a life, and make your own way, stop worrying about why others are better than you and how they got there.
Instead you turn on your television, Radio or connected device and repeat the narrative that is being fed to you over and over again until you accept it as truth. Darwin was a man and a name… Deserves capitalization. Hopefully you can learn something from a useless, right-leaning, anti-masker, Liberty-minded American white man. As small a gesture as it is. My gift to you. We will get further if we work together. Change is good but it must be for everyone not just one side. We have become very lazy cause of the work it would take to come together and work it out.
More time and alot more patience for one another. He must be praised and appeased, but never challenged. His enemies are, by definition, in league with the forces of evil. If religions were only about wish-fulfilling fantasies, they would be all sweetness and light. But they are not. The sweet promise of heaven is meaningful only against the threat of hell, and salvation requires something one needs to be saved from, even at the price of austerity, suffering, and — in the case of religious martyrs — torture and death.
The same is true of authoritarian political discourse. It is not all pastry: it is also poison. T o address this darker dimension of the authoritarian mindset, I turn to the work of another, less well-known psychoanalyst — Roger Money-Kyrle, who came from an aristocratic English family. He enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps at the age of 18 to fight in the First World War, and was shot down over northern France in , which ended his military career.
After the war, he enrolled at the University of Cambridge to study physics and mathematics, but soon switched to philosophy. Like a number of thinkers at Cambridge at the time, Money-Kyrle became interested in psychoanalysis, and travelled to Vienna in to complete a PhD with the philosopher Moritz Schlick the leader of the Vienna Circle and to undergo analysis with Freud.
After returning to the United Kingdom in , he earned a second PhD, this time in anthropology, and eventually became a practicing psychoanalyst. In , Money-Kyrle briefly visited Berlin at the invitation of his friend, the diplomat Arthur Yencken who was later murdered when Nazis planted a time-bomb in his plane. Money-Kyrle was fascinated and disturbed by what he saw and heard, and tried to make sense of what went on by examining the speeches and crowd dynamics through a psychoanalytic lens.
By the time he visited Germany, Money-Kyrle was strongly under the intellectual influence of the Hungarian-born English psychoanalyst Melanie Klein.
She thought that these anxieties, and our responses to them, drive a great deal of human behaviour — for good or for ill. In the Kleinian scheme, there are two primary forms of psychotic anxiety: paranoid anxiety, which is the terror of being persecuted by evil, eternal forces, and depressive anxiety, which is the sense that one is guilty of having destroyed what one loves and values. Klein also described what she called the manic defence , which is a denial of helplessness and dependence on others by delusions of power, grandeur and self-sufficiency, and is expressed in the attitudes of triumph, control and contempt.
He concluded that Hitler and Goebbels induced something like a mass psychosis in their audience, and shaped it for political ends. He wrote:. Observing Hitler and Goebbels in action led Money-Kyrle to the idea that, for political propaganda to work, propagandists must elicit a sense of helplessness in their audience the poison and then offer them a magical solution the pastry. First, they make the audience depressed — to get them to feel that they have lost or destroyed something immensely good and valuable.
They have been brought to their knees. They are a laughing stock. They have betrayed the great destiny of the German people. The monster seemed to indulge in an orgy of self-pity. They are forces of evil, persecuting us from the outside or consuming us from within.
Money-Kyrle wrote:. Everyone outside remained a persecutor, and therefore an object of hate. Although inspired by observations of Nazi rhetoric, Money-Kyrle did not mean his analysis to apply only to the Nazis.
Whether or not the psychoanalytic diagnosis of the appeal of such leaders is correct, some such analysis of the psychological wellsprings of the craving for authoritarian leaders is needed. Understanding the attraction of authoritarian illusions could help to inoculate us against it, and so avoid being led once again into the abyss.
Modern biomedicine sees the body as a closed mechanistic system. But illness shows us to be permeable, ecological beings. Nitin K Ahuja. They are spreading like branching plants across the globe. Should we rein cities in or embrace their biomorphic potential? Josh Berson. Thinkers and theories. Some see Plato as a pure rationalist, others as a fantastical mythmaker.
Both were primarily justified on traditional security grounds, first and foremost combating the threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
They were masterminded and implemented not by liberals but by neoconservatives and right-wing hawks. And it worked. Leading liberal interventionists in the Democratic Party, academia, the media, and Washington think tanks bought in — casting war on terror hawkery not as a break with the interventionism of the s but as its logical extension.
Hillary Clinton wrote in a op-ed in Time. How can any liberal, any individual who associates himself with the party of humanity, not count himself in this coalition of the willing? The messianic liberal energies once focused on genocide prevention became redirected toward defeating jihadism and spreading democracy in the Muslim world.
Joe Biden said in a speech at the Democratic National Convention. But the war in Iraq swiftly proved disastrous. Hundreds of thousands died as a result of the US invasion, which uncovered no weapons of mass destruction.
Instead of stabilizing the region and promoting democracy, it gave birth to ISIS and a fragile Iraqi state few wanted to emulate. During the conflict, American troops committed atrocities — including mass murder and torture — that undermined US claims to moral superiority. Meanwhile, Bush neglected the occupation of Afghanistan ; Osama bin Laden escaped and the Taliban reconstituted itself, evolving into an effective and deadly insurgency by the time Bush left office.
The catastrophe in Iraq and the long quagmire in Afghanistan undermined two fundamental liberal interventionist premises.
First, that America could be trusted to attack the right targets — that liberal ideals would not be abused to justify unjust wars. Second, that defeating murderous tyrants would produce better humanitarian outcomes. These twin lessons played a pivotal role in the decline of liberal interventionism. Barack Obama won the Democratic primary in no small part because he had opposed the Iraq War from the outset — while Hillary Clinton, infamously, had supported it.
As president, Obama surged troops into Afghanistan in an effort to defeat the rising Taliban insurgency. When faced with a potential mass slaughter in the Libyan city of Benghazi in , he chose to launch a Kosovo-style intervention — multilateral, primarily airpower, no large-scale postwar American occupation. The US and its allies not only stopped the conquest of Benghazi but also toppled Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi — arguably exceeding their UN mandate in doing so.
And there was no subsequent quagmire as in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the war was hardly an unmitigated success. It became an anarchic and violent place, a weakly governed space exploited by jihadist militants — one that remains unstable today. After the catastrophes in the Middle East, the most prominent liberal interventionists went in different directions. Still others, like Beinart and Moyn, have spent years grappling with what they now see as the terrible mistakes of the s and s, becoming influential skeptics in debates over the US use of force.
But on the whole, what was once a vital intellectual and political movement has dissolved. It is also a reaction to deeper transformations in global politics. First, the United States is no longer unrivaled in the way it was when the Berlin Wall fell. Even more important, the rise of China suggested that America might actually face a peer competitor in the future — a rising power that, unlike Russia, might be able to overtake America in global influence.
In this paradigm, some liberals began to see wars for human rights as a costly distraction — aligning with realists in a renewed emphasis on traditional power politics. American liberals now face a threat closer to home: Donald Trump, an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party , and the rise of illiberal populism inside democratic states.
The shock of far-right populism did not just undermine the sense of destiny that motivated liberal global ambitions in the s. It also made liberals acutely aware that the great ideological battle of today would not be waged abroad but at home.
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