Article 2GTAS The Epic Triumph of Liberalism and Its Tragic Betrayal

The Epic Triumph of Liberalism and Its Tragic Betrayal

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But even in the middle of this triumph, the corruption of liberalism had already begun. By the 1880s, Spencer was already lamenting that the self-styled Liberals of his day were all about hyperactively legislating against liberty, quite as fervently as the absolutist Tories ever did. Thus, he wrote an entire essay called "The New Toryism" which argued that, "Most of those who now pass as Liberals, are Tories of a new type."

From 1860 onward, as Spencer detailed meticulously, Parliament under the Liberal Party became a non-stop geyser of "social" legislation.

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