It is though. Liberalism is the ideology of capitalism and capitalism is unsustainable. Both in the sense of environmental sustainability and in the sense of the tendency of the rate of profit to decline.
This whole line of “old ideas become stale” and “young people question orthodoxy” contradicts the thesis, because liberalism is the old idea, is the orthodoxy.
One election, of a handful of elections, doesn’t disprove the general trend, that people are fed up and looking at alternatives. Biden winning in 2020 did not mean the end of Trumpism, much less of “illiberalism” in general. This is a general trend, not some absolute prophesy.
It is though. Liberalism is the ideology of capitalism and capitalism is unsustainable. Both in the sense of environmental sustainability and in the sense of the tendency of the rate of profit to decline.
This whole line of “old ideas become stale” and “young people question orthodoxy” contradicts the thesis, because liberalism is the old idea, is the orthodoxy.
One election, of a handful of elections, doesn’t disprove the general trend, that people are fed up and looking at alternatives. Biden winning in 2020 did not mean the end of Trumpism, much less of “illiberalism” in general. This is a general trend, not some absolute prophesy.