A New Liberalism

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Liberalism as a political creed and project has been kaput since 1914, though, paradoxically, it greatly influenced almost everything else in the run-up to that point to the extent that almost everyone is at least a little bit of a liberal, in a broad sense. If you think that's nonsense, try to draw up a list of points that would determine (roughly) whether or not someone is a liberal. You'll get my point soon enough.

American Liberalism is different, obviously. To misquote Herbert Morrison, American Liberalism is what Democratic Administrations do. And, in reality, not a lot else.

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What about Thatcherism?

Low Toryism mixed with certain post-war/cold war economic/sociological/etc fads carried out by people who deluded themselves into believing that they were, in fact, liberals after all. There's been some great work on this subject over the past decade or so.