Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But go back to 2002 and you'll find a lot of people not just arguing that there's a need for some counterterrorism measures, but that liberal democracy faces a profound *ideological challenge* from some form of Islamist thinking that proved to be a mirage. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 9, 2023

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Fukuyama's thesis has been so overwhelmingly vindicated that contemporary people have trouble understanding that at the time he wrote the book he was making a non-obvious point, and his critics latch onto side issues rather than the core thesis. — PolitiTweet.org

Struck by how much of the anti-Fukuyama argument here is about how liberal democracies fail to live up to their own… https://t.co/48KrYDtuTl

Posted Feb. 9, 2023

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Critics of "wokeness" often complain that the "woke" won't come up with a name for their own post-liberal ideology, but this is itself a sign that Fukuyama is right — all debates occur inside the liberal conceptual space with all parties claiming ownership of the tradition. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 9, 2023