It’s The Audacity of Mope:
Lashing out against a world in which they are unhappy, [JD Vance, Patrick Deneen, and Adrian Vermeule] seek the sources of their discontent in an amorphous and carelessly defined liberalism.
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Hungary under raving illiberal V. Orban is really the only place acid haters of liberalism can thrive.
I mean, they can analyze the sources of their gnawing misery forever; but at some point, shouldn’t they stop whining and act? Shouldn’t they want to model for their children a happy parent, who lives in alignment with his deepest values?
If you had a choice between moping about in a free liberal democracy or frolicking in fascism, wouldn’t you frolic?