![]() ![]() With its nationalistic Nazism of the 1930s and ’40s, Germany is the last place to lay claim to liberal credentials. In the first place, Zille’s deployment of Germany as the starting point of her musings betrays the worst form of obfuscatory revisionism. ![]() The problem, though, is that both Putin and Zille are dogmatic ideologues working to prove the supposed correctness of their opposing ideologies – nationalism or liberalism.ĭue to her subjective standpoint, Zille cannot see beyond the metaphorical end of her short ideological nose. ![]() As an avowed “classical liberal,” Zille would always be expected to pick a fight with Vladimir Putin when he dumps liberalism into the dustbin as an “obsolete” ideology. ![]() What is more important are Zille’s views on liberalism. Strictly speaking, Zille lost no election, but she has gained a think tank in her new role as a research associate at the IRR. Mrs Zille’s opening remarks made it plain that her lecture was crafted to mark her grand entry into the liberal think-tanking of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).ĭecrying what the tittle of his influential essay suggests, Devaluing the Think Tank, American conservative author Tevi Troy coined the wry phrase, “lose an election, gain a think tank”. On 22 July 2019, former DA leader, Helen Zille, delivered a lecture on liberalism, titled “Keep on Fighting”, at a function of a small association called the Liberal Club. ![]()
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