Meeting the Fundamental Objections to Classical Liberalism
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There is little doubt that populist movements have gained great strength in recent years. The standard explanation for the British decision to leave the European Union in June 2016 and for the United States to elect Donald Trump as its president in November of that same year both converge on one point: the massive dissatisfaction that many ordinary people have had with the progressive elites that have governed both Great Britain and the United States. The key sources of that unrest have been the sluggish performance of the economy stretching back for many years; the ever-growing size of their government bureaucracies; and the annoying sense that progressive and socialist elites act as if they are morally superior to the rest of the population, which they treat in both words and deeds, with ill-concealed disrespect, or in Hillary Clinton’s two most important words uttered in the 2016 election campaign, as “the deplorables.”
Source Publication
The Cambridge Handbook of Classical Liberal Thought
Source Editors/Authors
M. Todd Henderson
Publication Date
2018
Recommended Citation
Epstein, Richard A., "Meeting the Fundamental Objections to Classical Liberalism" (2018). Faculty Chapters. 362.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/362
