I suppose we must prepare ourselves for more pseudo-intellectual drivel about the Enlightenment from people who oppose Donald Trump.
David Brooks of the New York Times appears to have gotten the ball rolling with “The Enlightenment Project.” Now Andrew Small has joined in with “The Counter-Enlightenment and the Great Powers.” In his opinion piece, Brooks identified globalist institutions with the Enlightenment in order to claim that Trump is “an anti-Enlightenment man.”
Small quotes Brooks as an authority on the Enlightenment, and makes his argument based on Brooks' identification of globalist institutions with the Enlightenment. According to Small, “the political DNA for the figures who have most effectively channeled the president's instincts is not just illiberal but explicitly counter-Enlightenment in nature.” Brook writes “anti-Enlightenment,” while Small prefers “counter-Enlightenment,” but either way the message is the same.
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