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发帖数: 7349 | 1 The election of Mr Trump is a rebuff to all liberals, including this
newspaper. The open markets and classically liberal democracy that we defend
, and which had seemed to be affirmed in 1989, have been rejected by the
electorate first in Britain and now in America.
France, Italy and other European countries may well follow. It is clear that
popular support for the Western order depended more on rapid growth and the
galvanising effect of the Soviet threat than on intellectual conviction.
Recently Western democracies have done too little to spread the benefits of
prosperity. Politicians and pundits took the acquiescence of the
disillusioned for granted.
As Mr Trump prepares to enter the White House, the long, hard job of winning
the argument for liberal internationalism begins anew |
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