The trouble with political philosophy is that it assumes that people actually think about politics philosophically. Would that they did; they might recognize their own confusions. Instead, they just rally around their inherited totems.
The world-historical train-wreck that is unfolding before our eyes results from the capture of what Michael Sandel termed America's "procedural republic" (see his Democracy's Discontent) by militant Christianity.
No political philosopher is talking about that, unless we wish to consider Noam Chomsky a political philosopher.
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