Thomas Winterbottom

Liberalism in America Thomas Winterbottom

Many commentators believe that America entered a conservative period beginning about 1979, and this has been characterized as a decline in liberalism. However, America has always been a conservative nation, and has never embraced the full liberalism as had been conceived of and to some degree implemented by the Europeans. This book explores the reasons for this, and how the current populist movement in much of the Western world may be another barrier to the creation of a liberal state in America.