Trump's Road to Modern Serfdom: The "Right" Voters. The "Right Leaders

By Nick Licata

If conservatives accept President Donald Trump’s agenda to dismantle our republic’s laws and principles, they could go down The Road to Serfdom, as Friedrich A. Hayek’s book title suggests.

Hayek, an Austrian-British economist and Nobel laureate, believed that “the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom.” Any constraints on the exchange of property in the marketplace lead to socialism, which he considered a form of totalitarianism. This logic leads many to adopt Hayek’s philosophy of libertarian conservatism, which links individualism, morality, and the free market as the unified force necessary to protect individual freedoms.

Trump’s attacks on Democrats flow from this philosophy as he attacks liberal planning, programs, and funding as radical socialist actions. These assumptions are central to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 initiatives, which he is implementing. Trump is determined to destroy the “deep state.”

Although he died in 1992, Hayek’s formulation of libertarian conservatism lives on, shaping conservatives’ and Republicans’ game plan to deconstruct our democratic republic’s core institutions, as Steve Bannon, Trump’s earliest White House advisor, boasted.

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