Sentences with phrase «cultural libertarianism»

But something rotten happened between the Clintonian «passing of the torch» and the swearing - in of model family man Barack Obama: the Bush GOP revealed that apparently the forces of cultural libertarianism could only be held at bay in an avalanche of bad government.

As John Milbank and Adrian Pabst put it in their new book The Politics of Virtue, contemporary political culture is the product of a convergence of two strains of liberalism: a leftist cultural libertarianism that took off during the 1960s and 1970s, and a rightwing free - market liberalism that reached its apogee with the Reagan - Thatcher alliance.

They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.