Michael Lind says, “The libertarian moment has passed.” Jonah Goldberg ridiculed the Lind schtick against conservatives five years ago and many of the same arguments apply to this post mortem.
The demise of both socialism and libertarianism
pretty much limits the field to moderate social democracy and
big-government conservatism. The limitation of options on the
horizontal left-right spectrum is accompanied, however, by a growing
vertical, top-bottom divide between an elite committed to globalisation
and mass immigration and a populist, nationalist majority.
