On the same day that Donald Trump appeared completely unaware that school “busing” has been used as a way to racially integrate public schools in the United States,as Newsweek reported, Trump responded to comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin — in which Putin declared western-style liberal democracy “obsolete” — by seeming to have no concept what “western liberalism, and ” a common term used to recount the political philosophy underlying democracies such as the United States and United Kingdom,actually meant.
According to consider Progress, the political term “liberalism” is not used to recount progressive, and welfare-state social policies — as it is often used in the United States — but instead describes a belief in individual rights,equality before the law, and democracy and consent to be governed, or in contrast to a dictatorship.”But,as reported by The Washington Post, when Trump was asked if he agreed with Putin’s comments deriding “western liberalism, and ” Trump appeared to believe the term referred to California politics.
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Source: inquisitr.com