Whiggish Brooks implies a cause: suddenly unnamed enemies here and abroad of Western civ values of limitless liberty and democracy have emerged, and nobody has stepped up to defend them.
The implication of course is that this march in triumph of Western civ toward world civ has been interrupted by both internal and external forces indifferent or antagonistic to its call.
Brooks says: rise of illiberals.
How did they arise in the first place, if Whig liberalism had been lifting all boats?
How did they arise in the first place, if Whig liberalism had been lifting all boats?
Are they new rival Tory civilizations, spawn of Western liberalism, biting the hand that fed their rising boats?
He says we have entered the age of strong men. He does not want to get into a clash of civilizations account. Too much truth in it for him. The strong men story helps him stay away from that clash of civilizations tar baby.
Let's just call it Brooks' The Rise of the Tories account. Actually, now, all we have are faux tories. We got rid of almost all our aristocracies and monarchs in the flurry of Globalist Whiggism.
How about, The Rise of the New Napoleons? After all, the new whiggism of The age of the Democratic Revolution gave Napoleon his opening.
Napoleon has been the faux tory icon, par excellence, for 200 years now!
He says we have entered the age of strong men. He does not want to get into a clash of civilizations account. Too much truth in it for him. The strong men story helps him stay away from that clash of civilizations tar baby.
Let's just call it Brooks' The Rise of the Tories account. Actually, now, all we have are faux tories. We got rid of almost all our aristocracies and monarchs in the flurry of Globalist Whiggism.
How about, The Rise of the New Napoleons? After all, the new whiggism of The age of the Democratic Revolution gave Napoleon his opening.
Napoleon has been the faux tory icon, par excellence, for 200 years now!
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