{"id":254,"date":"2025-02-21T10:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/the-liberal-order-permits-madmen-and-extremists-by-heather-cox-richardson\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:28:28","slug":"the-liberal-order-permits-madmen-and-extremists-by-heather-cox-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/the-liberal-order-permits-madmen-and-extremists-by-heather-cox-richardson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Order Permits  Madmen and Extremists &#8211; by Heather Cox Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>the very stability and comfort of the post\u2013World War II liberal order has permitted the seeds of its own destruction to flourish. A society with firm scientific and political guardrails that protect health and freedom, can sustain \u201can underbelly of madmen and extremists\u2014medical sceptics, conspiracy types and anti-democratic fantasists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur society has been peaceful and healthy for so long that for many people serious disaster has become inconceivable,\u201d Marriott writes. \u201cAmericans who parade around in amateur militia groups and brandish Nazi symbols do so partly because they are unable to conceive of what life would actually be like in a fascist state.\u201d Those who attack modern medicine cannot really comprehend a society without it. And, Marriott adds, those who are cheering the rise of autocracy in the United States \u201chave no serious understanding of what it means to live under an autocratic government.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-20-2025\">heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-20-2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the very stability and comfort of the post\u2013World War II liberal order has permitted the seeds of its own destruction to flourish. A society with firm scientific and political guardrails that protect health and freedom, can sustain \u201can underbelly of madmen and extremists\u2014medical sceptics, conspiracy types and anti-democratic fantasists.\u201d \u201cOur society has been peaceful and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}