The success of populist movements in democratic nations is leading many on the political left to envisage a recalibrated political process to ensure that populist figures are never again able to rise to power, resulting in what political scientist Stephen Macedo called “civil totalism.”
Western liberalism, as a political project, has ordinarily been characterized by intrinsic freedoms.
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