The End of Liberalism

Chilton Williamson's book "The Faith of the Present Democratic Party" challenges liberalism and reveals it as a cultivated version of absurdity. He argues that liberalism asserts that human nature can and must be perfected, but without reference to nature, and is collapsing due to opposition to the idea that it is essential to modernity. Williamson offers commentary on the present state of liberal ideas and their crimes against better judgment, vindicating conservatism from being labeled reactionary.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2023
Publisher: St Augustine's Press

In the fourth title of the Dissident American Thought Today Series, Chilton Williamson takes on liberalism and unveils the faith of the present Democratic Party as its own cultivated version of absurdity. This advanced liberalism is not the liberalism of Mill, and it certainly no longer represents the thinking man's party. If it were once true that conservatism was unimaginative and reactionary, the opposite is the picture of our times. Liberalism now asserts that human nature can and must be perfected, but without reference to nature. The age of the expert has been thrust upon the United States with the urgency of technique to coerce the vision of a perfect society and perfect human beings.

Williamson observes that this liberalism is, nevertheless, collapsing, given the obvious opposition to the idea that it is essential to modernity. Liberalism is, ironically, a kind of unyielding control, a relativist persuasion that discourages and resists fixed beliefs and certainties and the idea of truth itself. Williamson offers commentary on the present state of liberal ideas and their crimes against better judgment, and vindicates conservatism from being labeled reactionary.

Liberalism is exposed as a faith we cannot accept, for it contains nothing to be believed and what it says about the order of things is pure fiction.

Weight: 258g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781587312199