Articles below raise key Qs: Did PC circles get too small? Do woke libs need to learn to dream again: blend freedom, justice, and economic inclusion? Other? (Notes: Trudeau is yesterday’s fish and chips. Also PC above is short for politically correct, not Progressive Conservative Party.)
Michael Ignatieff: I led Canada’s Liberal Party. Defeat is a teacher. – WaPost
“To rebuild liberalism, we’ll need to recover what the word used to mean.”
“…New bureaucracies in universities, corporate headquarters and government offices enforced diversity at the price of freedom: the freedom to defend unpopular loyalties, to freely dislike others, to be funny at other people’s expense, to be critical of the pieties of others but especially our own. A liberalism whose defining value should have been liberty invented a diversity and inclusion industry whose guiding principle may have been justice but whose means of enforcement included coercion, public disgrace and exclusion.
“Worst of all, we censored ourselves, willingly turning off our bullshit detectors and stilling the inner doubts that might have made us confront our mistakes…”
How Liberal America Came to Its Senses – Atlantic