Navarro
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In order to properly defend itself from an Enlightenment that cannot stop Enlightening, they've (unwittingly or not) latched onto some far older attitudes as a new bed rock, a lot of which harkens back to the ancient Republic the Founding Fathers much admired. Liberalism has been the Achilles heel of the West, unable to counter the left, if not it's progenitor! It is a noble idea (disregarding its lack of built in "stop" function), but liberty alone is no backbone for a civilisation's beliefs.
The problem isn't anything inherent with liberalism or the Enlightenment. Liberalism is, as you said, a noble ideology which brought in a new age of human freedom and development, but it assumes a Christian foundation. Guess what WW1, WW2, the Holocaust, and other such atrocities and genocides shattered the West's faith in?