Back in the 90s I really disliked Stephen Holmes' category of "anti-liberalism," which suggested that the differences among these various thinkers and ideas didn't matter and they were defined by this one thing they weren't. Holmes saw Compact coming and I didn't, in other words.
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Even the most liberal countries' institutions are only partially designed by liberal ideas, partially by nationalism, conservatism, etc. A tiny minority of the world's governments identify as liberal, even our cultural products are heavily steeped in right-wing norms.
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The most basic of liberal principles are, at very best, majority views among electorates, not super majority ones. In most liberal democracies more people identify as conservative than liberal.
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