I think this is a very good post. Popper's vision is basic to any class of liberal, from "classical liberals" (who are usually called conservatives in contemporary politics, and were the core of the late 20th century GOP) to the liberals of today's Democratic Party. This is a clear outline of the ways DeSantis has positioned himseslf and…
I think this is a very good post. Popper's vision is basic to any class of liberal, from "classical liberals" (who are usually called conservatives in contemporary politics, and were the core of the late 20th century GOP) to the liberals of today's Democratic Party. This is a clear outline of the ways DeSantis has positioned himseslf and Florida as leading forces of illiberalism.
But illiberalism can take multiple forms, as the recent controversy over the dismissal of a faculty member at Hamline University for showing an image of the Prophet Mohammed illustrates (detailed in last Sunday's New York Times, Jan. 8). There is no counterpart to DeSantis on the Left, because DeSantis uniquely mobilizes state power to close the open society. But, practically speaking, those on the Left will be in a much stronger position to criticize these forms of Right illiberalism if they are vocal in speaking out against illiberalism on the Left, particularly since Desantis has, in part, explicitly positioned himself as a response to illiberalism on the Left in academia.
I think this is a very good post. Popper's vision is basic to any class of liberal, from "classical liberals" (who are usually called conservatives in contemporary politics, and were the core of the late 20th century GOP) to the liberals of today's Democratic Party. This is a clear outline of the ways DeSantis has positioned himseslf and Florida as leading forces of illiberalism.
But illiberalism can take multiple forms, as the recent controversy over the dismissal of a faculty member at Hamline University for showing an image of the Prophet Mohammed illustrates (detailed in last Sunday's New York Times, Jan. 8). There is no counterpart to DeSantis on the Left, because DeSantis uniquely mobilizes state power to close the open society. But, practically speaking, those on the Left will be in a much stronger position to criticize these forms of Right illiberalism if they are vocal in speaking out against illiberalism on the Left, particularly since Desantis has, in part, explicitly positioned himself as a response to illiberalism on the Left in academia.