While not an expert in politics across the pond, from where I sit it looks as if a few things are true. First, is that the populations are increasingly rejecting the liberal philosophies and priors. Second, is that the parties that speak against these are gaining traction.
Yet, as they gain traction, you see politicians (slippery creatures that they are!) get out in front of the band, and direct them where they want to go. The crowd hears the directions they want to hear, but doesn't notice when the leader takes them off the route they've voted to go down.
This seems to have happened in Brexit and Italy. It may happen in France and Germany.
Conservatives, wishing to conserve the current order or life 10 years prior, have not yet gotten the lesson on punishing such people. Of not trusting them. They have a relationship of loving their masters, and the goods that the liberal order gives them, even as they denounce the evils that it brings as well.
Until they're ready to suffer, and make their misaligned leaders suffer for mistakes, post-liberalism will go no where on a state level. On a small, local, polity level - yes. But I have a hard time believing the Empires of France, Britain, Germany, and Spain, are going to change in the meantime.
While not an expert in politics across the pond, from where I sit it looks as if a few things are true. First, is that the populations are increasingly rejecting the liberal philosophies and priors. Second, is that the parties that speak against these are gaining traction.
Yet, as they gain traction, you see politicians (slippery creatures that they are!) get out in front of the band, and direct them where they want to go. The crowd hears the directions they want to hear, but doesn't notice when the leader takes them off the route they've voted to go down.
This seems to have happened in Brexit and Italy. It may happen in France and Germany.
Conservatives, wishing to conserve the current order or life 10 years prior, have not yet gotten the lesson on punishing such people. Of not trusting them. They have a relationship of loving their masters, and the goods that the liberal order gives them, even as they denounce the evils that it brings as well.
Until they're ready to suffer, and make their misaligned leaders suffer for mistakes, post-liberalism will go no where on a state level. On a small, local, polity level - yes. But I have a hard time believing the Empires of France, Britain, Germany, and Spain, are going to change in the meantime.