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Monday, January 9, 2017

Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species?

Pat Buchanan, American Renaissance, January 6, 2017

“European peoples are largely fleeing from the future America preaches and promises.”  “As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy,” writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, “it is illiberal democracy.”  Galston’s diagnosis is not wrong, and his alarm is not misplaced.

Yet why does America’s great export, liberal democracy, which appeared to be the future of the West if not of mankind at the Cold War’s end, now appear to be a church with a shrinking congregation?
Why is liberal democracy losing its appeal?  A front-page story about France’s presidential election, in the same day’s Journal, suggests an answer.  In the final round next May, the French election is likely to come down to a choice of Marine Le Pen or Francois Fillon........The present crisis of Europe has been produced by the migration of tens of millions of Third World peoples never before assimilated in any European nation, and by the pollution and poisoning of these nations’ traditional culture.........To Read More......

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