Contemporary “Liberalism” is the Opposite of True Liberalism

by Don Boudreaux on January 21, 2010

in Frenetic Fiddling, Nanny State

George Will nails it: “The essence of contemporary liberalism is the illiberal conviction that Americans, in their comprehensive incompetence, need minute supervision by government, which liberals believe exists to spare citizens the torture of thinking and choosing.”

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