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From Commentary:
An Unpopular Approach to the Populism Problem
A modest proposal.
NOAH ROTHMAN / MAR. 8, 2018
… But here’s the thing: The populists are outnumbered. Global free trade and liberal democracy do not benefit everyone equally, but they create vastly more winners than losers. … Classical liberalism’s winners vastly outnumber its losers, and it is the populist nationalist alternative that cannot be accommodated. But it can, and therefore should, be defeated.
Humility and passivity do not well serve those who truly believe the liberal capitalist order hammered out after the Second World War is of the greatest benefit to the greatest number. Concessions to illiberal populists or chauvinistic nationalists should not be the product of charity or self-doubt. They should be hard-won, and only after a bitterly contested ordeal. These kinds of martial metaphors will yield bouts of feigned indignation from populist nationalists who freely and recklessly resort to such language themselves, but this, too, amounts to mere theatrics. If capitalist democrats believe their model is the means by which the greatest number will benefit, and contend that their opponents are dangerously wrong, they need to start acting like it.
It has been more than a generation since the West confronted a peer competitor that championed an alternative model to the kind of liberalized global economic integration that emerged after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. As such, our skill at championing a model of social organization unapologetically, without fear or favor, has atrophied. That’s an aptitude that we will have to re-learn, and soon. If populist nationalism is to be contained, it cannot be subsumed into greater liberalism and its malcontents mollified by social-welfare programs. The very idea of populist nationalism will have to be overwhelmed. As soon as advocates of unfettered freedom and commerce come to that conclusion, that necessary work can begin.
What exactly is Mr. Rothman proposing with his allusion to “necessary work”?
More anti-Trump propaganda?
More censorship of dissenters?
Death squads to throw Stephen Miller and Tucker Carlson from helicopters?
Nuclear strikes on rural Pennsylvania?
A response:
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My query in reply:
@NoahCRothman You say Deplorables "are vastly numerically inferior & lack the firepower their opponents possess. Why don't we just defeat them?"
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) March 9, 2018
Do you mean:
1. "Commentary" Mag should hold more fundraisers
10. 1-way helicopter rides for Coulter & Carlson
On 1-10 scale, what? https://t.co/ls6jaYO7rL
