Full Idea
What liberalism can say on its own behalf is that no system of power in human history has tried harder to insert a corrective conscience into its institutions.
Gist of Idea
Liberals have tried very hard to build a conscience into their institutions
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 3)
Book Reference
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.195
A Reaction
What we are learning in recent years is that wonderful liberal institutions can be quietly eroded by the forces of darkness, once those forces have sufficient control of the media to hide what they are doing. The 'rule of law' is wobbling.