The Role of Democracy and Liberalism on the Left

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i wonder whether there is an opportunity in the fact that a lot of ordinary americans have, who would not call themselves classical liberals. They share many offets moral instincts, and who activated when they see blatant cases in which liberal precepts are violated. I think one of the reasons why public opinion moved to the left roand to right under donald tramp's presidency. But i think it also makes me more optimistic about the ability of liberals to push back against some of the sort of rising liberalism on the left. The other thing is that there'are a lot of elit decisions that need to be taken. Like right now, i think the democratic party has really, in a

Francis Fukuyama, one of the most important living political scientists, is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute. His writing spans from the origins of society in earliest prehistory to the rise of modern democracy and the identity wars of the 21st century. His new book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, a defense of the values of free societies, is scheduled for release in April 2022.

In this week’s conversation, Francis Fukuyama and Yascha Mounk discuss how neoliberalism has gone awry, the excesses of individualism on both the right and the left, and how to rejuvenate liberalism.

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