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We are witnessing the end of the liberal era
CNN ^ | November 18th, 2016 | Nile Gardiner

Posted on 11/18/2016 9:43:03 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden

In just two months' time, the world will bid farewell to President Obama. In his final overseas trip before exiting the White House next January, Mr. Obama stood alongside his German counterpart Angela Merkel at a press conference in Berlin, warning against a "meaner, harsher, more troubled world."

In the wake of last week's stunning electoral victory by Donald Trump and the Republican Party, he seemed a diminished figure, as did Mrs. Merkel, the guardian of a liberal ancien regime that is beginning to crumble on both sides of the Atlantic.

The winds of change are sweeping through the West, challenging decades of conventional wisdom, overturning the dominant liberal consensus, and reviving a greater sense of national identity and self-determination. Without a doubt, the extraordinary victory by the Vote Leave campaign in Britain's EU referendum was a precursor to the November presidential election in the US, with an emphatic humbling of the political establishment against all odds and all expectations. Though the Brexit campaign was in many respects different to that of Mr. Trump in both style and messaging, both succeeded in delivering a political earthquake that shook the global political order.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: govtabuse; trump; trumpwinsagain; tyranny
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"At the end of the day, it is nation states that will stand up to terrorism and tyranny, and not the grandiose dreamers sitting in the European Commission or the European Parliament."

Could not have said it better myself. It's hard to believe this article was on CNN.

1 posted on 11/18/2016 9:43:03 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Don’t buy it. Liberals are just slithering back under their rocks to regroup.


2 posted on 11/18/2016 9:44:17 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Era = error.


3 posted on 11/18/2016 9:44:29 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I hope reforming the failed public school monopoly is high on the priority list.


4 posted on 11/18/2016 9:46:10 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

The Soviets were the original model for liberals. Hell, even the Russian can’t stand liberals now.


5 posted on 11/18/2016 9:46:19 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
In the wake of last week's stunning electoral victory by Donald Trump and the Republican Party, he seemed a diminished figure:


6 posted on 11/18/2016 9:46:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

>> We are witnessing the end of the liberal era <<

No. No, we’re not. Alinsky was right when he called Lucifer the first radical. We need to brace for everything that they can throw at us.


7 posted on 11/18/2016 9:46:41 AM PST by dangus
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Exactly

All the elites have managed to do is get a lot of people killed.


8 posted on 11/18/2016 9:46:43 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Liberalism is hydra. Just because you’ve cleaved off a few heads don’t think your work is through. It never is.


9 posted on 11/18/2016 9:47:12 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Old Teufel Hunden


With the selection of Keith Ellison, mooselimb follower of calypso louie, to be the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the dumbocrap party has officially declared We Give Up!


10 posted on 11/18/2016 9:47:32 AM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

It is a reflowering of the classical liberal, as opposed to a totalitarian, era.


11 posted on 11/18/2016 9:47:40 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Lots of s***-for-brains Socialists matriculating through the Public Schools and Universities.

Tyranny never, ever rests.


12 posted on 11/18/2016 9:47:52 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Not really liberal in the classic sense. The leftist propaganda era maybe.


13 posted on 11/18/2016 9:48:27 AM PST by Leep (Winner winner chicken dinner!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

“We are witnessing the end of the liberal era”
==
I hope so.


14 posted on 11/18/2016 9:48:28 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Texas Eagle

Spot on... when the republicans begin to grow a pair, and the 47% who vote for Santa Claus begin defecting I’ll believe we’re on to something...


15 posted on 11/18/2016 9:48:49 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

End of the liberal - start of the insane, extreme, post-modern Marxist era.


16 posted on 11/18/2016 9:49:08 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Texas Eagle

Eyup


17 posted on 11/18/2016 9:49:24 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MountainWalker

Burn them off instead. :)


18 posted on 11/18/2016 9:49:50 AM PST by OKSooner (Geno's is a tourist trap.)
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"It is a reflowering of the classical liberal, as opposed to a totalitarian, era."

You are correct. I've always hated the fact that the left stole the term liberal from us. Jefferson and the rest of the founders were liberals. We are the true liberals, as in liberty. I always refer to them as leftist, socialists, communist etc... much better description...
19 posted on 11/18/2016 9:50:05 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Texas Eagle

Yeah, don’t count your chickens.

If only Millenials had voted Hildebeast would have gotten 503 EV’s.

I expect them to seize control of the Dem Party and nominate someone at least as radical as Bernie.

A few of us go off to that Great Polling Booth in the Sky every day. This is a hearts-and-minds battle we have on our hands.


20 posted on 11/18/2016 9:50:42 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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