How Liberals Lost America
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/liberal-moral-neutrality-ushered-trump-back-to-power-by-andres-velasco-2025-01
At least since the publication of John Rawls’ monumental “A Theory of Justice” in 1971, liberals have divorced justice from desert, since we don’t deserve our natural endowments, whether that be height, agility, or talent at math. Donald Trump quickly grasped that this view of egalitarianism rubs most US voters the wrong way.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/liberal-moral-neutrality-ushered-trump-back-to-power-by-andres-velasco-2025-01
At least since the publication of John Rawls’ monumental “A Theory of Justice” in 1971, liberals have divorced justice from desert, since we don’t deserve our natural endowments, whether that be height, agility, or talent at math. Donald Trump quickly grasped that this view of egalitarianism rubs most US voters the wrong way.
Foreign Lessons in the Perils of DEI
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/foreign-lessons-in-the-perils-of-dei-trump-administration-policy-india-south-africa-malaysia-33f19d85
The Trump administration saves the U.S. from going the way of India, South Africa and Malaysia.
A 2018 piece:
Against Identity Politics: The New Tribalism and the Crisis of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/americas/2018-08-14/against-identity-politics-tribalism-francis-fukuyama
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/foreign-lessons-in-the-perils-of-dei-trump-administration-policy-india-south-africa-malaysia-33f19d85
The Trump administration saves the U.S. from going the way of India, South Africa and Malaysia.
A 2018 piece:
Against Identity Politics: The New Tribalism and the Crisis of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/americas/2018-08-14/against-identity-politics-tribalism-francis-fukuyama