What used to be called the Anglosphere — those countries that are direct heirs to English traditions of constitutional government, the rule of law, and individual rights — is now in disarray.
What’s wrong with Canada — or at least that part of the Canadian government that sees Communist China as a more reliable future partner than the U.S.?
For that matter, what’s wrong with Great Britain, where the government has felt free to some 1200 people for social media posts it doesn’t like?
Or Australia, where the government put up with the spread of virulent anti-Semitic groups until the massacre in Sydney forced Canberra to rethink its policy after (according to one commentator), “ toward Jews becomes commonplace, normalized, and eventually legitimized.”
In short, what used to be called the Anglosphere — those countries that are direct heirs to English traditions of constitutional government, the rule of law, and individual rights — is now in disarray, and it’s not true that Donald Trump is entirely to blame. What is true is that the United States is the country that has remained closest to those shared ideals and classical liberal economic principles; the others have had governments and intellectual elites moving in very different directions and embracing policies and principles that directly undermine that inheritance.
In New Zealand, for example, where a center-right government insists on invoking the basic principle of “equality of citizenship,” the result has been massive protests in support of affirmative action-style policies New Zealand’s Maori minority.
Even in the United States, the ideals that once animated what Winston Churchill called “the English-speaking peoples” as the vanguard of freedom and progress and made the Anglosphere the carriers of hope, stability, and security after the Second World War, as embodied in the intelligence-sharing network, have come under systematic attack as racist, imperialist, sexist, and whatever other accusation the political left can throw at a once-great cultural inheritance.
What’s happened here?
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