Why Trump's first moves in office have been so scary. He is launching a full-scale war against modern liberalism.

[Celerity]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/28/trump-first-week-liberalism-democracy/

https://archive.ph/OLjlN



President Donald Trump and his aides are launching a full-scale war against modern liberalism. And I’m very worried that they will be successful. Though what exactly defines liberalism is contested, the term generally refers to the protection of individual rights, such as free speech and property ownership. But self-identified liberal politicians and liberal voters in the United States and around the world (particularly in Europe) have embraced a much broader set of values and practices that I’m referring to as modern liberalism.

Those include robust higher-education systems where students and professors have a significant amount of freedom in what they teach and research; attempts to ensure equality across lines of race, gender and sexual orientation; respect for independent authorities that act as a check on elected leaders, such as the news media; enthusiasm for ethnic, racial and religious diversity, as well as immigration, free-trade agreements, and other forms of multilateralism and multiculturalism.

Some who describe themselves as liberals don’t agree with or always abide by those principles. And many conservatives and Republicans who would not describe themselves as liberals, such as former senator Mitt Romney of Utah, support many elements of modern-day liberalism. During his first term, Trump and his aides at times rejected liberal values and practices that had previously been supported by leaders in both parties, such as being generally welcoming of immigrants. That attitude led to frequent criticism that Trump was upending “norms.”

Now, Trump is taking on modern liberalism even more aggressively, by firing inspectors general, freezing federal funding for scientific research, restricting immigration, trimming transgender rights and making a number of other moves in his first nine days in office that previous Democratic and Republican presidents had avoided. Many of his actions resemble and are borrowed from other anti-liberal politicians, including Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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[WarGamer]

1. Everyone KNEW this was coming. We needed to WIN in 2024...

It was critical.

Enough said.