Opinion: Readers had questions about my essay on the rise of strongmen. Here are the answers.
By Robert Kagan Robert Kagan Contributing columnist focusing on foreign affairs Bio Contributing columnist March 20 at 1:09 PM Editor’s note: Last week, The Post published “The strongmen strike back” by Robert Kagan, warning that authoritarianism has reemerged as the greatest threat to the liberal democratic world and poses a profound ideological challenge to liberalism. Readers submitted questions for Kagan, and he responds to some of them here:That is a good question.
Now, in the United States, and in liberal democracies around the world, we have agreed to infringe on the absolute right to property by imposing taxes and other measures in order to aid the general welfare, and particularly to provide assistance to those who, for one reason or another, have not been able to earn a livable wage. But we have made that decision by democratic means, and the individual right to property remains the core premise.
Climate change is going to exacerbate geopolitical competition and conflict of all kinds. To take just one example: What happens when, because of the lack of water and arable land, we see massive migration away from areas that are no longer habitable to more temperate regions? We have already observed the effects of immigration on the politics of the United States and Europe.
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