Liberalism's hypocrisy led to Trump's victory

Trump's silent majority and the contradictions of liberals

Liberalism is full of contradictions. We claim to want freedom, but must curtail freedom in order to secure that freedom itself. We claim to be anti-ideology and to be open to different viewpoints, but that apparent anti-ideological openness is an ideology in itself. Liberalism's hypocrisy is rife. Sophie Scott-Brown argues this hypocrisy has led to Trump. Trump owns his contradictions. Liberalism must get out of its internal, spiralling discourse, and spread its core values, to prevent another 'shock' from another 'populist' leader.

 

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