From today’s Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens opines on what “post-liberal” democracy is bringing to this world. “Much of modern European democracy,” he writes, “is of a post-liberal variety. Post-liberalism seeks to replace the classical liberalism of individual liberty, limited government, property rights and democratic sovereignty with a new liberalism that favors….
…social rights, social goods, intrusive government and transnational law. In practice, post-liberalism is a giant wealth redistribution scheme. It bankrupted Greece and will soon bankrupt the rest of Europe. What happens to bankrupt democracies? Think Weimar Germany, Perón’s Argentina, and, more recently, Yeltsin’s Russia. Now take Egype. There, instead of post-liberal democracy, you have the energetic stirrings of pre-liberal demoracy. What is pre-liberal democracy? It is democracy shorn of values Westerners typically associate it with….”
You can read the whole column at the Wall Street Journal HERE.