Published Monday, February 26, 2007 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. asks: Why are Republicans so bad? There are interesting class-based reasons, but the core problem is philosophical. Their meta-understanding of politics bypassed the liberal revolution of the 18th century and embraced the anti-liberal elements of the Enlightenment. Up with Hobbes, down with Locke: that is their implied creed. Liberty is fine but order, ORDER, is much more important, and order comes from the state. They can't even fathom the truth that liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order. That thought is too complex for the Manichean mind.
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The Republicans and their Doomed Ideology (1.63 MB)