(((Nick Cohen))): "Only true liberalism can thwart the demagogues"

From Brexit to Trump to Putin, it is the scourge of crude nationalism that must be challenged

When underdogs become overdogs, everything changes. They are the masters now, however much they try to pretend otherwise. Their power to change and ruin lives demands relentless and unforgiving scrutiny.

The hangover from the long age of globalisation has hidden the existence of a new elite, let alone the need to hold it to account. The neoliberal order began from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, perhaps earlier with the elections of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in 1979/1980. You have to be in your 50s to remember another time. It ended with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Its death was disguised because no new system stepped forward to replace it.

Now its successor is shambling into view, like a figure from a bad dream you hoped you had forgotten. It is nationalism. The often demagogic and always deceitful nationalism you saw in the Brexit campaign and see now in the actions and policies of Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen and Vladimir Putin. Even the Syriza movement, held up by many as a respectable alternative to the old status quo, was powered as much by a grotesque but authentically nationalist Germanophobia as a socialist programme.

Demagogic nationalism has to be fought. Not only because the promises it makes to its gullible supporters are plainly false, but for a reason many are still struggling to comprehend. Just because the old order left whole classes behind, and promoted inequalities of wealth that offended every moral person, does not mean the alternative will be better. Indeed, we already have evidence enough that the alternative will be worse.

Try arguing that and you are hit with insults that have been repeated so often they have become cliches. Don’t be elitist. Don’t patronise. Don’t punch down. At best, they reflect a worthy desire to listen to and sympathise with those globalisation left behind. As before in history, however, the long period of stasis also brought a gormless ennui. The desire to welcome challenges to “the establishment”, however repellent, led the BBC to build up George Galloway and Nigel Farage and US cable television to give Trump tens of millions of dollars worth of free publicity. Both thought anything was better than the same old “boring snoring” politicians. Both thought wrong.

You see the result when you make the argument that Brexit was an act of gross folly that it will take Britain and Europe years to recover from. You are at once denounced as a metropolitan liberal elitist who treats ordinary people as fools. I agree one must accept that the collapse of European social democracy was caused in part by the failure of narrow, middle-class liberals to understand their fellow citizens. Technocrats thought the fact there was no evidence worth mentioning that immigrants steal jobs or depress wages meant opposition to immigration could be dismissed as irrational prejudice. They did not grasp that most of us, maybe all of us at some point in our lives, value the familiar and the local. New cultures that native Europeans did not understand, and new people whose mannerisms and expressions they could not read, unnerved them.

Meanwhile, the authoritarianism, which has turned left-liberalism into a movement for sneaks and prudes, was always going to play into the hands of the right. Free citizens have stopped listening to those who respond to the challenge of argument by screaming for the police to arrest the politically incorrect or for universities to ban speakers who depart from leftish orthodoxy.

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There are good reasons for liberal guilt. There is much to be guilty about, after all. But guilt about “liberal” elitism make no sense. We do not have a liberal elite now. We have a bragging, nationalist and proudly ignorant elite. The “hard Brexit” they are driving us towards will hurt the very workers who voted Leave. With Labour in the hands of the far left, it has, shamefully, fallen to the lone voice of George Osborne to warn that the nationalist elite is about to threaten the jobs and living standards of the very “hard-working” people who so naively believed its promises.

What applies at home applies abroad. The collapse of communism left America as the world’s sole superpower. Even if its foreign policy was consistently benign, resentment of its dominance would have been inevitable. As it was, American power was far from being consistently benign and in the decades since 1989 anyone who questioned it was treated with the indulgence we always grant to Davids who take on a Goliath.

But see where American power stands today. Russia, Assad, Iran and Hezbollah break the Syrian ceasefire. They bomb aid convoys and turn Aleppo into a 21th-century Dresden. Barack Obama and John Kerry do not look like imperious masters of a unipolar world now. They look like what they are: impotent and humiliated has-beens. Russia can do what it wishes in the Middle East. However loudly America complains it has no option but to tag along. For years, some of us have been writing against the immorality of politicians and intellectuals who excused Slobodan Milošević, Islamo-fascism, Saddam Hussein, the Iranian theocracy and the Russian kleptocracy. You get a measure of how deep the rot has spread when you notice that Trump, and the leaders of Ukip and the Front National are Putin admirers. You realise the scale of the corruption on the left when you find the leader of the British Labour party has worked as a paid propagandist for Iranian state television, defended Milošević, Hamas and Hezbollah – and, not to be left out, Putin too. The moral disgust at their collaborations should never fade. But in our new age, moral arguments have a practical urgency. The destruction of Syria is pushing refugees into Europe, whose presence fuels support for the far-right parties Putin sponsors.

Denunciations of American power, like denunciations of “neoliberalism” and “liberal elite”, are worse than simplistic now. Like the twitching of a corpse, they are exhausted responses from a world that has gone. They still have propaganda value, no doubt about it. But in the world as it is rather than was, it is Brexiters who are pushing with a doctrinaire determination to leave Britain poorer and meaner than they found it; the extreme left and right that support the regimes that threaten us; and Russian rather than American imperialism that is throwing Europe into chaos.

Liberal technocrats who “treat ordinary people as fools” neither receive nor deserve a hearing. But show “ordinary people” that their supposed champions have taken them for fools and you have a chance of breaking through. Then, maybe, they will listen.

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The kike also rushed to blame Assad and Russia for the bombing of the aid convoys a few days ago.

Here come dat real gommunism, oh shit!

rat faced jew believes it has moral authority in its quest to genocide Whites.

Why have you posted this tl;dr jewish propaganda in full?

Because those of us with IQs above the double digits enjoy being able to read and understand ehat our enemies are saying to better defeat them, rather than working on little information and a half-formed approach.

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ffs

This kike has some nerve. This article reads like a spoiled brat who thinks he's smarter and better than everyone else. He acts like he understands what he's talking about, but he doesn't have the first fucking clue.

Is he talking about jews?

What a seedy fucking kike. So all the brits that voted to leave are stupid and don't understand the risks. You can't make a sacrifice for the greater good of your people, if it even comes to that.

We don't understand shitskin's "mannerisms"? So I guess rape, sectarian, and death cult ideology is something we just need to understand more. We gotta have some empathy guys.

Fuck this kike. I made it through half his article and I already wanted to see him in a labor camp.

This fucking guy Kvetching over what? An alternative?

What is "TRUE" liberalism you fucking kike? No amount of newspeak and twisted rationalization can make your "TRUE LIBERALISM" any different than the globalism that you fucking dismiss as "dying long ago"

Globalism is the logical conclusion of all Utopian ideologues, it's what you want, and it's what your kind has always wanted, you're now trying to package your failed political movement as something new by pointing out that it isn't comparable of the philosophy that the leftists elites held onto "Fifty years ago"

Eat shit and die you disgusting kike.

Sounds like business as usual in the US

It's 2016 and I'm whining: the article.

I need one more picture

Kek

Is this the, "my specific brand of communism still hasn't been tried yet" meme come to life?

No, this is the goyim refusing to go quietly into the long night.

Thoughts?

or is this better?

The kikes just can't help themselves with going overboard, even for silly civic nationalism

democracies are designed for demagogues to take control, and you would be hard pressed to find any president in american history that wasn't a demagogue. kikes are just salty that it's becoming more popular to want to look out for yourself and tell others to fuck off
the college commie sjw truly is the greatest ally of the right. even better, leftists will never fully denounce their actions, lest they be labeled right-wing sympathizers and outcast from their social groups.

also, i've been seeing the word "demagogue" thrown around a lot more recently. it seems to have replaced "populist" in these little shaming articles, probably because it sounds scarier.

No nigger. Having a High IQ does not mean reading all of the worthless information.
YOU DUMB NIGGER.

High Intelligence means scanning for important info only. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I HATE SUBHUMANS.

MURDER EVERY LAST STUPID MOTHER FUCKER ON THIS EARTH. KEK WILLS IT.

It means reading information that's actually of worth, and taking the time to understand it so you can counter properly. Would you not read intelligence reports before making a command decision? Similar principle.

Liberalism is nothing but full of demagogues, just many times under a ridiculous veneer of snarky sarcasm that only morons like them would think passes for wit. This cohen does not seem to be able to grasp irony. Then I suppose it would be foolish of me to expect one of the chosen to self reflect on their actions instead of whining for the sixty-sixth billionth time this week alone.


And there is it.

No matter how hard a kike tries to pretend to be a liberal, he is always a kike. The vast majority of kikes are "liberal" yet the moment Israel is brought up, these kikes become more racist than even the most hard liner straight out of 1940s Germany. Those organisations like Hamas and Hezbollah exist solely due to kikes and only a "true" liberal wouldn't defend them to begin with. Hell, I'd defend them over a fucking kike. They're the ones who created all this chaos in the sandy shithole that ruined the west and the world.

They must reap what they sow and ISIS should do well to fuck up kikes instead of the west.

I've clearly been doing this longer than you.
There are no arguments made by the left — the only cards they will ever play are: Racism, anti-semitism, sexist, and bigot.

I am not going to read this. Ever.

Please, since you bothered to read this useless info, tell me, what great insights have you had? What magnificent counters have you come up with, solely from this article??
HMMM nigger?

Don't forget about "Reactionary" That word is still thrown around.

reactionary is a very good word.
When we win, we will destroy everything the Jews hold dear - including the Revolution as a concept.


There's a new word, demagogue, and a new concept: "deceitful nationalism".
The kike cries as he punches you.

Oh, they are readying to blame the rise of the Right to SJWism - which… isn't terribly wrong.
Thank you, Senor Lowtax and your goons!

Those are the base cards, yes, but if you don't know which they're fielding, then you have no way of countering them. In this case, they're currently continuing the push to encourage a no true scotsman of the far left in an effort to hide their overall affiliations.

In addition to that, they're doing the usual partisan politics of demonizing nationalism while excusing communism.

Niggers.

The only things you ever read, are the enemy's gameplans / and tactics. Things like protocols, quotes, psychology, methods of manipulation.

EVERYTHING THEY TELL THE GOYIM IS USELESS.

stop fooling yourselves. You've learned absolutely, fucking nothing.

That was like reading a 15 year old genderqueer's first tumblr post. Please never post again.

It's not useless because it is a part of their protocols/quotes/methods of manipulation.

Would you bitch about people taking the time to study the weather, claiming that information is worthless? Because that's the current argument you're fielding.

People
Leader

Leader of the people

Yes, Choen, you are correct. Liberalism exists to rob the people of its leaders.

Has anyone made a "MUH DEMAGOGUE" image yet, as in pic related?

So caring for one's own nation is wrong? What a typical kike.

One race the goyim race

One nation the goyim nation

Above all is are the Chosen People goy

That makes their jaws look too manly.

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But I got those concepts by taking 3 seconds to skim it. I didn't have to sit there and chew through the whole wall of bullshit.

This article is targeted at the goyim.

Only leftists seem to want to go to war with Russia. They literally do not care about soldiers dying for nothing. Leftists are disgusting subhumans.

Kek really does will it. Those dubs say so. OP is a nigger.

all democratically elected

Hasn't that shit been shit on to hell in back?

I didnt read it and want his ass in a "fun" camp

"True liberalism", top fucking kek.

These people are vermin.

It's funny, never once in that article does he spell out what "true liberalism" is. He just tries to hedge his bets (like a typical kike) by half-heartedly denouncing some of the more extreme left, while failing to differentiate himself from them in any way.

Also burst out laughing at the insinuation that since Brexit eked by, and Trump is running for president, that means all the liberals/progtards are instantly powerless, and the ebil nationalists are running the show now.

(((fellow white people)))

That does not make something objectively good, or right. It just means more chumps put their X in one book instead of the other.

If we voted tomorrow to add an Amendment to the Constitution that reverses the Second and bans gun ownership, would that be a good thing?

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Is this a fucking joke?

Stupid right wingers think immigration is part of a conspiracy theory to destroy the west herpaderp.

Putin is secretly destroying the west.

this isn't the first reply wtf
can't even trust shills anymore

mfw there are still anons here who are bluepilled on ISIS…

I find it funny that he tries to convince people that Globalism is good despite it being responsible for the devaluing of professions and destruction of middle eastern countries like Syria and Libya.

"True liberalism" is a feel-good deceptive facade where every citizen of different nationality suffers. Mexico doesn't benefit from losing skilled and intelligent workers that are paid like shit in the US, it becomes worse from losing those skilled individuals.

He even tries to delude goys into believing that we have a "right-wing" establishment. Completely laughable. I didn't know that the "right-wing" was pro-immigration, pro-racemixing, pro-BLM, anti-"hatespeech", and pro-LGBT. The hatespeech laws, whole fiasco with North Carolina, and funding of left-wing organizations (Anifta, BLM) made by George Soros should have been concrete proof that we have a left-wing establishment.

He's either duplicitous or pretty damn stupid. Leaning on the former since I think highly of people.