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There is a liberal form of identity politics that says that liberalism does not live up to its promises of the equal treatment of individuals.

— Francis Fukuyama

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In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.

Liberalism and its Discontents (2020)

The one on the right concerned the shift from an older understanding of economic liberalism to what is now called "neoliberalism." Neoliberalism is not... a synonym for capitalism.

The polarization has a number of different roots.

We tend to feel the greatest bonds of solidarity with people that are close to us. There are very few true citizens of the world.

As a result of the deregulation that occurred in the 1980s and 90s we had an escalating series of financial crises.

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