Sentence examples for liberal delusion from inspiring English sources

An allied liberal delusion, in Mr. Huntington's view, is the promotion of multicultural policies both at home and abroad.

If recent events have proved anything, it's that any liberal delusion that we live in a post-racial, multicultural country is – pardon my French – utter bullshit.

"I'd go so far as to call it a liberal delusion," Ira Glasser, the former executive director of the A.C.L.U. and a liberal dissenter on Citizens United, told me.

Pink has a particular tendency to pull radically insightful arguments from nowhere – about sensationalist media, the amorality of capitalism, liberal delusion – and cloak them in clangingly reactionary or inflammatory conclusions.

When even Newt Gingrich shows up to decry the injustice of crack-cocaine laws, one knows that this isn't some liberal delusion.

"Rome may not yet be in flames," Phillips ominously suggests, alluding to Enoch Powell's infamous "rivers of blood" speech, "but I think I can smell the smouldering while we hum to the music of liberal self-delusion".

Leftwingers, on the other hand, believe liberals have delusions of their own: namely that party politicians will naturally push important issues forward without any prodding.

Nora Ephron expresses a surprisingly common delusion among liberals, who have long been blinded by the impossible ideals and expectations they impose on anyone who dares to lead them.

Traditionalists such as the pope believe that liberal self-actualisation is a delusion that can only lead to misery; feminists and egalitarians are sure that no one can be completely fulfilled in a patriarchal and hierarchical society.

Beyond that, the idea of a liberal elite nourishes the right's perpetual delusion that it is a tiny band of patriots bravely battling an evil power structure.

In this, Rauf seems to have bought into the damaging delusion afflicting so many of my liberal friends on this issue.