”All revolutions are failures, but they are not all the same failure.”

How liberalism became ‘the god that failed’ in eastern Europe https://t.co/lhCp6xyanj

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) 2019年10月25日

In the first years after 1989, liberalism was generally associated with the ideals of individual opportunity, freedom to move and to travel, unpunished dissent, access to justice and government responsiveness to public demands. By 2010, the central and eastern European versions of liberalism had been indelibly tainted by two decades of rising social inequality, pervasive corruption and the morally arbitrary redistribution of public property into the hands of small number of people. The economic crisis of 2008 had bred a deep distrust of business elites and the casino capitalism that, writ large, almost destroyed the world financial order 

I t is impossible to imagine that, after the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution, Trotsky would have decided to enrol at Oxford to study. But this is what the future Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and many others did. The revolutionaries of 1989 were strongly motivated to travel to the west in order to observe up close how the kind of normal society they hoped to build at home actually worked in practice.

The issues of emigration and population loss bring us to the refugee crisis that struck Europe in 2015–16. On 24 August 2015, Merkel, the German chancellor, decided to admit hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into Germany.

The issues of emigration and population loss bring us to the refugee crisis that struck Europe in 2015–16. On 24 August 2015, Merkel, the German chancellor, decided to admit hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into Germany.

This entire discussion brings us to a core idea of contemporary illiberalism. Contrary to many contemporary theorists, populist rage is directed less at multiculturalism than at individualism and cosmopolitanism.

Illiberal democracy promises to open citizens’ eyes. If the liberal consensus of the 1990s was about individual legal and constitutional rights, the anti-liberal consensus today is that the rights of the threatened white Christian majority are in mortal danger

　西洋諸国をみならえばいいってんでやってみたら、格差が拡大して、腐敗が蔓延、優秀な人材は西洋に移住する代わりに難民がどかっとやってくる。これじゃ、キリスト教文化は破壊されるということで、個人主義、 地球市民主義のリベラルに対抗して、伝統的なキリスト教的な社会を保守しよう、と。

ーーーここらへんはミアシャイマーの言っているとおりになっている、というわけですかね。

もっとも、
War on liberalism　
それでもリベラルから得られるものもあるですけどねええ。