Metamodern political thinking constitutes a breach with liberalism and liberal democracy as we know them. We can no longer take the stance of the liberal innocent. It is this innocent that has to die. We must hereby issue a fatwa; shoot on sight. The liberal innocent holds a few deeply seated beliefs that hail from the modern, industrial view of life, existence and society—beliefs that I contend are outdated and increasingly harmful. The first such belief is that one can hold a “pure” or “correct” ideological position within a parliamentarian party system; that one can be “on the right side”
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