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Why classical liberalism is struggling: - Doesn't give common purpose or even group identity - Liberty & equality are at odds - "Live & let live" isn't motivating enough to cohere around - Openness to ideas leaves it susceptible to illiberal ideas that can parasitize from within
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“Liberal” stands in contradiction to “classical” It’s like saying “ancient modernism” Of interest to historians of ideas but not a meaningful contemporary position.
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Doesn't work. Liberalism has connotations of being on the edge of evolution/development and those qualifiers all have the effect of pulling back from the edge. You have to drop "liberal" as a noun if you want to do that. An accurate term would be broad-minded conservatism.