El liberalismo y sus desencantados

Liberal political systems are under threat all over the world. We are witnessing a "democratic recession", in which the indicators on rights and freedoms are suffering in recent years. The rise to power of leaders such as Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán or Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski has gone hand in hand with the violation of the separation of powers, judicial independence and attempts to control the media. In his new book, Francis Fukuyama argues that the expansion of these "illiberal democracies" is the result of a reaction against the social perception that liberal regimes have been powerless to face the problems generated by the inequality that capitalism has brought with it. globalized. Fukuyama takes charge of the different objections to liberalism coming from both conservative and progressive approaches, to conclude that the problem of liberalism is not really in fundamental weaknesses of its doctrine, but rather that what generates discontent is rather the way in which liberal systems have evolved since the 1970s.