Development is the Hard Truth We open with this incredible line from Deng Xiaoping: "development is the hard truth".... posted 2mo ago with 15 replies (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.6 9.6 Development is the H (view hidden) log in to judge received 9.6 9.6 What all successful ruling elites seem to do is picking the parts of their nominal ideology that work, while ignoring the parts that don't work.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.2 9.2 What all successful (view hidden) log in to judge received 9.2 9.2 Bukele's bio says "Philosopher King". He's echoed Simon Bolivar's ideas around liberalism being ill-suited for Latin America. Both he and Missao are quite explicitly postliberal. 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.3 5.3 Bukele's bio says "P (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.3 5.3 Milei seems to do fine with it. He is a strident Liberal in the sense of Adam Smith and John Locke, and everyone serious I talked to in Argentina loves him. I heard many variations of "finally we're trying something new." For a concrete example, he ended r... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.1 7.1 Milei seems to do fi (view hidden) log in to judge received 7.1 7.1 It hasn't been quite that long. Theodore Roosevelt was the archetypal example of Liberalism done right in the early 20th century.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.3 5.3 It hasn't been quite (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.3 5.3