Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump walks at a campaign rally at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa., November 4, 2024. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Theorists on the right and the left have tried to inflate a few policy disputes into national emergencies.
This week, it is Thomas B. Edsall who wonders if liberalism is doomed, citing two books that are sharply critical of the center-left elite as an indictment of liberalism itself. Self-professed liberals have lost touch with the working class (true). Suddenly, liberals are facing challenges from populists on the right as well as a critique from the left, in the name of socialism.
It is, however, a leap of judgment to conclude that a governing philosophy that has dominated much of the West since the Enlightenment could in a matter of a few decades implode — a philosophy calling for
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