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Liberalism, pluralism has become almost a dirty world.

And they've become a rather guilty establishment.

You never have somebody like Kirstama really vigorously defending liberal values.

You've seen electorates yearn somehow for control.

But what we have is a strange situation in which liberals...

In order to survive in a world where people are drawn towards populism,

liberalism has to answer that quest.

Think of all the ways we talk about liberal or liberalism these days.

A lily-livered liberal, a bleeding heart liberal, a

metropolitan liberal elite, a woke liberal, a liberal centrist dad. It's no longer an argument,

it's an insult. And yet liberalism properly understood is none of these things. Rather,

it was a radical insurgent ideology, a way of understanding the world,

revolutionary and its day, in its insistence that no one, no king, no church, no state is above scrutiny,

that each human individual was a thing of grace, of beauty, of validity, of value, that we had rights as individuals,

which must be respected, that the state is an instrument of the individual and not the other way

around. It is the ideology or philosophy which created the world around us. For a brief period,

after the fall of the Berlin Wall, combined with free markets,

liberalism appeared not just dominant, but inevitable, the end state of history.

As we now know, history had other ideas.

Since the 2008 crash, liberalism has felt afflicted from every side.

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