The Battle of “Coronavirus Narratives”: Three Lines of Defence Against China

... incompetent and inadequate in positions of power, then perhaps the problem is not the people themselves, but the system as such! Back to the Roots! The third line of defence is the willingness to acknowledge the serious systemic imperfections of modern capitalism without touching upon the fundamental principles of political liberalism. In this case, it is not so much Donald Trump and Boris Johnson who are to blame, but rather Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The argument here is that many Western countries made the fatal mistake in the late 1970s and early 1980s of privatizing ...