Francis Fukuyama: The American Right Has Gone Off the Deep End

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote a sweeping philosophical polemic in which he argued that liberal democratic capitalism was the only viable economic and political system. Countries would either converge on its model or drift into dysfunction. What prevented states and individuals from accepting this fate was a fear of being the Last Man, a Nietzschean term for the individual living without ideas worth dying for. A world in which liberal democracy was triumphant was, Fukuyama argued in “The End…