Fareed’s Eloquent Tongue-lashing On Liberalism

On 6/28/2026, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria summarizes what he alluded to as the “second failure” mentioned in Adrian Woolridge’s book, “The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism.” Fareed’s insightful preshow (GPS) opinions and tongue-lashing are provided below.

“Liberalism believes in meritocracy. Historically, this was one of its noblest causes. It argues that people should rise by talent and effort, not birth, race, caste, or class. But over time, the meritocratic elite has hardened into its own aristocracy. Elite liberals support social justice but do little to dismantle legacy admissions. They want the poor to move up the ladder, but not if that requires building more houses in the leafy neighborhoods where they live. They praise individual merit but have created a vast diversity bureaucracy that too often judges people by group identity, rather than individual character. Nowhere is this clearer than K-12 education. A genuinely liberal politics that starts with a child. And it will attack any institution, union, bureaucracy, school board, university department that feeds its own power while failing America’s children. This is where democratic socialists and right-wing populists gain their power.”

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