For me, one of the most interesting things in all this is how liberalism has evolved over the years in America and the ‘Commonwealth’; the British Empire.
Liberalism has come in 3 waves.
The 1st wave or classical liberalism began in 1688 with the Glorious Revolution and 1776 with the American Revolution and lasted till the ascendance of the Labor Party in 1922 and FDR’s New Deal in 1933.
The 2nd wave or social democracy began in 1922 and 1933 and ended with her highness Shillary’s defeat at the hands of DJT in 2016.
In my view, social democracy was at its best from FDR’s new deal to the ascendance of JFK.
Fiscally it was moderate and socially it was still classically liberal, conservative and patriotic.
Somewhat understandably things took a turn for the worse after JFK’s assassination.
This is when liberals began questioning, and trading in some, but not all of their socially liberal, conservative and patriotic values for socially progressive values.
The Commonwealth went through a similar phase.
With the ascendance of Bill Clinton after the Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney revolution, liberals became more fiscally conservative but remained socially progressive.
Throughout all this, liberals remained moderate, with one foot firmly planted in classical liberalism, conservatism and patriotism, and the other in progressivism, but that all changed in 2016.
Ever since then, liberals, and neocons; fake conservatives, went completely batshit; 4th wave feminism/‘me too’, the Russian collusion hoax, the covid hoax and the Antifa/BLM insurrection.
If the 1st wave of liberalism in the Anglosphere was classical liberalism, the 2nd social democracy, I’d characterize the 3rd as corporate Marxism or woke corporatism, a synthesis of corporatism, Marxism, critical theory, Malthusian environmentalism and germaphobia.
It’s plain to see liberals have been radicalized.
Their new agenda (actually the oligopoly have been at this for over 2 centuries, they’ve gradually taken over liberals and conservatives and replaced them with neolibs and neocons, it’s just DJT took a few steps towards ousting some of the neocons from the republican party, there was no parallel ousting of neolibs from the democratic party, henceforth the democratic party is their new favorite and they’re accelerating their agenda), is agenda 2030, the great reset, the green new deal.
If paleoconservatives don’t reign liberals and neocons in at some point, either that or secession, I believe we will lose our republics before the end of the century.