Francis Fukuyama: what Trump means for America

The blowout victory of Donald Trump represents a decisive rejection by American voters of liberalism  

Americans were voting with full knowledge of who Trump was and what he represented. 

 Classical liberalism is a doctrine built around respect for the equal dignity of individuals through a rule of law that protects their rights, and through constitutional checks on the state’s ability to interfere with those rights. 

The first was the rise of “neoliberalism”, an economic doctrine that sanctified markets and reduced the ability of governments to protect those hurt by economic change. 

 The second distortion was the rise of identity politics or what one might call “woke liberalism”, in which progressive concern for the working class was replaced by targeted protections for a narrower set of marginalised groups: racial minorities, immigrants, sexual minorities and the like. 

State power was increasingly used not in the service of impartial justice, but rather to promote specific social outcomes for these groups.

There is no particular reason why a working-class Latino, for example, should be particularly attracted to a woke liberalism that favours recent undocumented immigrants and focuses on advancing the interests of women.

Francis Fukuyama Financial Times 8 November 2024

https://www.ft.com/content/f4dbc0df-ab0d-431e-9886-44acd4236922

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