The Democratists

The Democratists
A portrait engraved for a posthumous edition of Rousseau's works, after an original by Angelique Briceau. Public Domain
Emily Finley
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The growth of our Leviathan state in the West has taken place under the auspices of democracy. The words of Ronald Reagan in 1975 come to mind: “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.” Reagan seemed to intuit the power of the democratic lexicon to disguise totalitarian ambitions.

Emily Finley
Emily Finley
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Emily Finley holds a PhD from The Catholic University of America. She is a Senior Fellow at The Albertus Magnus Institute and the author of The Ideology of Democratism. She writes at The Christian Imagination.
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