National Liberalism

Not to be confused with Liberal Nationalism or National Libertarianism.

"John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body."
Andrew Jackson

National Liberalism, also known as Nationalist Liberalism, is an economically center-right to right-wing, civically center to moderately libertarian, culturally center to right-wing with few exceptions and nationalist ideology that is the child of Classical Liberalism and Nationalism. Historically he was best friends with his brother Radicalism when the old aristocracy controlled Europe from Berlin, Paris and Vienna, disregarding national identities in order to suppress republicanism. This led to a natural convergence of Nationalism and Radicalism because in order to establish democratic republics, the Radicals needed to secure the independence of their nation. National Liberalism in recent times has befriended Civic Nationalism, while historically he friends with Cultural Nationalism and even Ethnonationalism though he is still friends with Cultural Nationalism in many parts of the world.

In contrast to National Conservatism, he is generally more supportive of welfare, although in a chauvinist manner, as well as being in favor of civil liberties on social issues such as LGBT rights (he often still drops the 'T'), drug use, prostitution, pornography, euthanasia and abortion, although there is a large amount of them that holds pro-life and traditional family/marriage stances. NatLib may be very nationalistic when it comes to topics like immigration, international law and regulations.

European Natlibs generally have a special dislike for Islam, seeing many followers of it as terrorist sympathisers and opposed to "Western" concepts of Secularism and minority rights. Although European Natlibs attack Muslims for their percieved opposition to tolerating those with different beliefs or acts, often proclaiming themselves to be defending women and minorities, their fierce opposition to Social Justice leads many to verbally abuse and even dox those dubbed or self proclaim to be Social Justice Warriors".

It's important to know that national conservative parties which hold economically liberal views are not National Liberal, even though at first they were (and to some extent, still are) closely related usually sharing the same spaces in political groups and parties.

Variants

NatLib can be divided into 2 ideologies: National Conservative Liberalism (NatConLib) and Classical Liberal Nationalism (ClassLibNat). NatConLibs emphasize on traditional values, strong borders and rejecting progressivism, while having liberal views when it comes to economics. To the contrary, ClassLibNats may have some progressive views but in general, they are liberals first, nationalists second.

Bibism

See: Israel

Fortuynism

See: Netherlands

Lee Teng-Hui Thought

Lincolnism

Lincolnism is the ideology of the 16th president of the Untied States Abraham Lincoln. Lincolnism was defined by a strong desire for constitutional equality, and the abolition of slavery, as well high tariffs, and is generally more authoritarian than most other variants of national liberalism and is more culturally centrist. Lincolnism's idea of abolition is based on the idea that slavery should be abolished, and that blacks should aquire more rights (but not be made completely equal to whites). Lincolnism is perhaps regarded as one of the most influential variants of national liberalism alongside Gaulism as it changed the course of the United States and also changed the way America functions as a nation today.

Masarykism

Romanian Liberalism

See: Romania

Sternenkoism

Taiwan DPPism

The Democratic Progressive Party is a culturally progressive, economically center-right nationalistic party in the Republic of China and the ruling party of this country since 2016. It is one of two major parties in Taiwan, the other being Kuomintang. DPP promotes Taiwanese national identity , preservation of local languages like Taiwanse Hokkien, Hakka and other indigenous languages and most importantly, the creation of an independent Taiwanese nation and the abolish of ROC, which is opposed to KMT's Chinese identity promotion (which regards Taiwan as part of China) and their ultimate goal of reunification with China.

Their overall cultural progressivism and support for welfare programs and internationalization makes them differ from many other National Liberal partiesand closer to Third Way Liberalism. In addition, they also actively promote a Taiwanese identity based on Civic Nationalism. This tendency was related to the nation's White Terror history and the repression against Taiwanese identity and liberal values during said period.

In 2018, Tsai Ing-wen suggested a political framework which dictates which values that are deemed acceptable and recognized in Taiwan, known as Taiwanese Values, which emphasizes on these principles based on Universalism: Democracy, Liberty, Diversity, Openness, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Social Welfare, and Sustainability. Due to the overuse of concept and DPP's hostility toward any dissent, Many politicians and netizens who criticize the DPP will use it as a pejorative and satirical term, especially the Pan-Blue Coalition, for instance "Taiwanese Values Idiom Classes" launched by Taiwan People's Party Fans Club to mock the DPP administration^[32], or calling someone whose political views did not align with the Pan-Green coalition "Lack of Taiwanese Values" satirically.

Russia

Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny was an anti-Putin activist and the leader, as well as co-founder of Russia of the Future party. They have expressed support for economic liberalization, privatization of state enterprises, prohibition of state-owned media outlets, ending censorship, right to posses firearms, legalisation of same-sex marriage and abolition of military conscription, but also anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic, anti-georgian^[33] and ukrainophobic stances^[34], with him justifying Russia's intervention in Georgia and the annexation of Crimea.

However, Navalny has condemned the recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics by the Russian government, and the subsequent invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces.^[35]

History

Origin

To many people's surprise, National Liberalism has been around for some time now as his origin can be dated back to 19th century's Central Europe, noticeably within modern day Germany and Austria, where liberal supporters were often also the advocators of nationalistic ideas such as the creation of German state. In fact, some of today's German political parties can trace their roots directly to National Liberal Party, the first political party which was officially build around such ideology.

Development

Today, while not many central-to-right liberal political parties or their factions officially announce their ideology as National Liberalism (keep that in mind, as most of them commonly identify as Right-Populist or National Conservative with economically liberal views), its ideas and practices can still be seen in many of them. While not all of them have the similar opinion or practices on issues such as environment (although most of them are not that pro-industrialist as their earlier counterparts) or LGBT+ rights, they still share some noticeable characters such as importance of national identity, stricter immigration laws, anti-globalization and limited state intervention/cooperation with private departments. Some modern anti-globalization political movements are also often categorized as National Liberal, with Brexit as perhaps the most noticeable example.

Austria

Third Camp is a term used in Austria for pan-Germanist national liberals, in contrast to the country's other two major political forces: Christian Democrats (ÖVP) and Social Democrats (SPÖ). Today, the main representative of this tradition is the Freedom party of Austria. Historically FPÖ was a center-right party and had liberal stances, despite the fact that it was founded by former Nazis. Its former leader Norbert Steger wanted it to be the Austrian version of German Free Democratic Party. However since 1986 the party became more populist and shifted to the far-right, becoming primarily national conservative under the leadership of Jörg Haider. Some liberal factions still exist inside of it.

The Alliance for the Future of Austria is a party founded by Jörg Haider, self-described as right-liberal and part of the third camp, the party is viewed by the people as a "moderate FPÖ", being in favour of same-sex marriage, abolishing mandatory military conscription, economic liberalism, semi-direct democracy, soft euroscepticism and hardline stances against illegal and mass immigration.

During Sebastian Kurz's first chancellorship, he enacted a combination of policies that can be broadly denominated as "national conservative liberal" - he rejected the global pact for migration, reduction in social spending, tax cuts, augmentation of legal working hours , mandatory German language classes, ban of headscarves in certain places, repeal of the general smoking ban and opposition to nuclear weapons. Is worth to mention that the Third Camp influenced various secessionists parties and movements in South Tyrol being the first of them called the short-lived Freedom Party of South Tyrol, many of this parties have a friendly relation with the FPÖ.

Brazil

Denmark

The Progress Party is a national liberal/libertarian party founded in 1972. It gained national popularity after it's leader Mogens Glistrup paid 0% of income taxes. The party's platform advocated for radical tax cuts, abolition of the income tax all together and reduction of bureaucracy. In the 1973 Danish election, they got 15.9% of the vote and became the second largest party in parliament. In the 80s, the party's platform moved towards nationalism, taking anti-immigration and anti-islam stances. Over the years, the party kept on losing seats and popularity due to constant infighting within it, till becoming extraparliamentary in 2001. With a large chunk of it's members moving onto the Danish People's Party, which unlike Progress Party is more supportive of the country's welfare state while still taking a strongly nationalist position on Immigration and Islam.

Egypt

France

See: Gaullism

Germany

In Germany, the National Liberal Party was a major force in the Reichstag during the mid-19th century and was a strong supporter of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's policies until he started to advocate for Protectionism in 1890's. The party emphasized on the power of state, civil liberties and the economy, but since the 1870's the party has been in decline.

During the interwar period, the German People's Party can be seen as a spiritual successor to NLP. They focused on traditional family values, lower tariffs, opposition to welfare spending and hostility towards Marxism (more specifically, towards social democrats and communists). It was one of the largest liberal parties alongside its rival, German Democratic Party.

In modern times, the Free Democratic Party as well as Alternative for Germany have some national liberal factions^[36]^[37].

The short-lived Blue Party was founded by an ex-AfD member Frauke Petry and was a party for those who thought that CDU was too liberal and AfD was too nationalist. The party did not receive any seats in local and federal parliaments.

Israel

Likud (The Consolidation) is a major party in Israel that has its roots in Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionism, as well as in liberal and nationalist ideology. Immediately after the creation of Israel, the Herut (Freedom) party was founded, which was joined in 1961 by the Libralim organization (Liberals) in the Gahal electoral bloc, which was the main force of the opposition.

In economic policy, the party advocates for economic liberalism (as it is a traditional rival to the Labor Party), but also for a very pronounced nationalist rhetoric. On paper they advocate for free market capitalism, but in practise they have adopted a mixed economy.

In cultural policy, the party advocates both free enterprise and nationalism, but sometimes it compromises these ideals in practice because the support for populist economic programs does not meet these ideals. But it is designed to serve voters who are mostly nationalists, low-income and live in small towns and urban neighborhoods.

In more recent times, the party has shifted more towards populism.

Many former Likud MK's have founded splinter parties, such as Kadima (Forward) and New Hope.

Japan

Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi is the youngest daughter of Aung San, Father of the Nation of modern-day Myanmar, and Khin Kyi, and would live to become the figurehead of her country's pro-democracy movement against Tatmadaw, Myanmar's Military Junta which has ruled the country since the 1960s. Aung San Suu Kyi lived and studied in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s where she met and married British historian Michael Aris in 1972, with whom she had two children.

Coincidentally, when Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988, the long-time military leader of Burma and head of the ruling party, General Ne Win, stepped down after nearly 30 years of dictatorial military rule. Mass demonstrations for democracy followed that event on 8 August 1988, which were violently suppressed in what came to be known as the 8888 Uprising. The 8888 Uprising led to Aung San Suu Kyi's rise to prominence as she addressed half a million people at a mass rally in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda in the capital, calling for the transition to liberal democracy. However, in September 1988, a new military junta took power.

Aung San Suu Kyi became the General Secretary of the National League of Democracy, NLD, which she had newly formed with the help of several retired and defected army officials. Unfortunately, in 1989, she was put under house arrest by the Tatmadaw. Former Prime Minister U Nu attempted initiated to form an interim government made up of opposition leaders, with the support of the Indian government under Rajiv Gandhi. However, Aung San Suu Kyi, rejected U Nu's plan as she resonated that change had to come within Burma by the Burmese people.

In 1990, the military junta called a general election, in which the National League for Democracy (NLD) received 59% of the votes, guaranteeing NLD 80% of the parliament seats. However, the results were nullified as the military refused to hand over power to civilian rule, resulting in an international outcry and Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest at her home in Rangoon. During her time under house arrest she would achieve worldwide fame and admiration similar to other famous democracy activists such as Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Vaclav Havel and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990, and the Nobel Peace Prize one year later.

Her house arrest would last for nearly two decades and finally in 2010 with the help of the Obama Administration, she was released and planned to run for the presidency in Myanmar's 2015 elections. The NLD won the 2015 elections, however, as the 2008 Constitution states anyone married to a person who was not a citizen of Myanmar would be barred from running for the office of president, a new office was created for Aung San Suu Kyi, the "State Counsellor" to circumvent this inconvenience set up by the military. As State Counsellor of Myanmar would Aung San Suu Kyi would free and grant amnesty to many political prisoners that had been detained under the Tatmadaw regime.

However, the Tatmadaw had not given up on power since the 2008 Consitution referendum, and maintained a high degree of influence over Burmese politics, thus preventing any true transition to liberal democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi was forced to concede to appease the Tatmadaw which made her time as State Counselor a disappointing one for international observers and many of her past supporters who had expected her to solve Myanmar's problems and internal conflicts. Freedom of the press didn't improve under her watch and Myanmar remained a dangerous place for journalists.

Aung San Suu Kyi became notorious for her silence and lack of effort in stopping the persecution and genocide of Rohingya people in Myanmar, carried out by the Tatmadaw and Buddhist extremist monks.

On 1 February 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and deposed by the Myanmar military led by General Min Aung Hlaing, along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, after the Myanmar military declared the November 2020 general election results fraudulent.

Netherlands

Pim Fortuyn was a Dutch politician and author, originally a Marxist and then a social democrat, his views ended up closer to classical liberalism. He rose to prominence because of his criticism of the purple coalition government of Wim Kok and the "Islamification" of the Netherlands. Despite being labelled as far-right by opponents, Fortuyn portrayed himself as a defender of civil liberties and liberal values against Islam such as LGBT and women rights, with him being openly gay. In 2002 he was assassinated by a left-wing environmentalist activist, becoming sort of a martyr for the Dutch right, his ideology and persons also influenced right-liberals parties in Flemish Belgium .

In 2006 right-populist Geert Wilders emerged as a successor to Fortuyn. Founding the Party for Freedom (PVV), an even more overtly anti-islam party, with Wilders outright calling it a "fascist religion". Like Fortuyn, Wilders has described himself as a " right-wing liberal" and a defender of gay and women's rights against Islam. But since the early 2010s he seems to have diverted from economic liberalism and now voices more support for welfare state programs, abit restricted to born-Dutch citizens, which commentators have described as Welfare Chauvinism.

More recently, the party Forum for Democracy (FvD) originally attracted similar national liberal factions who found PVV "too extremist", while also having roots in Fortuynism. However as of late, a majority of them have now left due to the party having more closer ties to the Alt-Right and Neo-Nazis, going off to form splinter parties such as JA21, a Conservative Liberal/National Liberal party founded by Joost Eerdmans, a former Pim Fortuyn List member.

Norway

Progress Party (originally Anders Lange's Party for a Strong Reduction in Taxes, Duties and Public Intervention) was founded in 1973 as an anti-tax movement inspired by Mogen Gilstrup's party of the same name.

Erik Gjems-Onstad, an anti-Nazi ex-combatant was also a member of this party and took the leadership of the party after Lange's death, but abandoned the party in 1976. After that he was in different Right-nationalists parties until 2007. He advocated for stricter immigration laws and reduction of it specially from islamic one (being his main topic in his whole political career), at the same time he advocated for the abolition of conscription, separation of the church and state, liberalization of gun possession and also fewer regulations and taxes. Nowdays the party have a Libertarian faction and a National conservative, in his declaration of principles it states to adhere to popular liberalism.

Romania

The original National Liberal Party (PNL) was founded in 1875 and was a major political force in Romania before the outbreak of WW2. It supported the local bourgeoisie, seeking to expand the Romanian industry through government subsidies and a protectionist trade policy.

In 1930, PNL-Brătianu, or "Georgists" (named after Gheorghe I. Brătianu, ~~not him~~) split from the larger PNL. Georgists were against PNL's protectionist and interventionist policies and advocated for economic liberalism. PNL-Tătărescu was founded in 1944, but not much is known about it.

The modern National Liberal Party is mostly liberal conservative with a national liberal faction within it.

In addition, in Moldova, most pro-European and liberal parties are in support of unification with Romania, rejecting the Moldovan identity (more or less, similar to Third Camp groups in Austria), seeing it as a tool of Russian influence.

Sweden

New Democracy was a political party in Sweden which managed to gain a relatively big following in the 90's. The party was most well-known for its nationalist policies, which was shunned in Sweden at that time. This included limiting immigration, although this was primarily done for economic reasons rather than ethnic or cultural. Other positions that the party held were those of economic liberty, law & order, and a push for Sweden to join the EU.

Taiwan

The Democratic Progressive Party is a culturally progressive, economically center-right nationalistic party in the Republic of China and the ruling party of this country since 2016. It is one of two major parties in Taiwan, the other being Kuomintang. DPP promotes Taiwanese national identity, preservation of local languages like Taiwanse Hokkien, Hakka and other indigenous languages and most importantly, the creation of an independent Taiwanese nation and the abolish of ROC, which is opposed to KMT's Chinese identity promotion (which regards Taiwan as part of China) and their ultimate goal of reunification with China.

Their overall cultural progressivism and support for welfare programs and internationalization makes them differ from many other National Liberal partiesand closer to Third Way Liberalism. In addition, they also actively promote a Taiwanese identity based on Civic Nationalism. This tendency was related to the nation's White Terror history and the repression against Taiwanese identity and liberal values during said period.

In 2018, Tsai Ing-wen suggested a political framework which dictates which values that are deemed acceptable and recognized in Taiwan, known as Taiwanese Values, which emphasizes on these principles based on Universalism: Democracy, Liberty, Diversity, Openness, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Social Welfare, and Sustainability. Due to the overuse of concept and DPP's hostility toward any dissent, Many politicians and netizens who criticize the DPP will use it as a pejorative and satirical term, especially the Pan-Blue Coalition, for instance "Taiwanese Values Idiom Classes" launched by Taiwan People's Party Fans Club to mock the DPP administration^[38], or calling someone whose political views did not align with the Pan-Green coalition "Lack of Taiwanese Values" satirically.

United Kingdom

The Patriot Whigs were a split group from the Whig party from 1725 to 1803 founded by William Pulteney in opposition to the government of Robert Walpole, especially for his foreign policy.

UK Independence Party or UKIP for short, is a hard Eurosceptic party famously led by Nigel Farage. Initially it was more in line with Classical Liberalism and right-libertarian leanings in terms of economics and civic liberties, while having a strongly nationalist view on British culture. Thatcherism had a strong influence on the party's ideology. However after Farage stepped down as leader, the party moved even more towards Ultranational Liberalism and the Alt-Lite.

Reform UK (formerly Brexit Party) was founded by Nigel Farage as a spiritual successor to UKIP, after the far-right takeover of the party. The party is closer to UKIP's original roots, describing itself as "classical liberal" in its constitution.

Powellism is an economically right-wing (but also welfarist), culturally center-right, and highly nationalistic ideology, based on the political beliefs of former Conservative and later Ulster Unionist MP, Enoch Powell.

Powell was most well-known from his anti-immigration rhetoric (in particular his warnings of ‘Rivers of Blood’ if immigration continued ‘en masse’). He was also a White Nationalist- claiming that those descended from Caribbean and Asian immigrants did ‘not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.’

Although he had previously held imperialist views (with an ambition to become Viceroy of India), upon Indian independence he decided the entire British Empire must go alongside it. Britain should, in the eyes of Powell, return to the period of ‘ splendid isolation’. He opposed Britain being involved in international organisations and alliances, particularly with the United States, which he accused of destroying the British Empire and seeking to re-unify Ireland in order to ensure its membership of NATO. Powell’s anti-Americanism was so strong that he even saw the Soviet Union as a potential ally for Britain in countering American influence in Europe (despite Powell himself being pro-capitalist).

As mentioned above, Powell was generally pro-capitalist and pro-free market in the sphere of economics. He believed that business interests should be looked after by the people that best understood them – in Powell’s view, this was businessmen and not politicians. He was the first major UK politician to call for de-nationalision of public services in the 1960s. However, while Powell was very much a monetarist, at the same time he also supported the welfare state and trade unions.

With regards to social views, Powell was conservative in terms of his support for the maintenance of monarchy, established religion and hereditary peers in governance. However, on other issues he was liberal/libertarian- he opposed the death penalty and corporal punishment while supporting no-fault divorce and other aspects of the ‘ permissive society’ established by Labour Governments. He also voted to decriminalise homosexuality as he did not regard "it as a proper area for the criminal law to operate".

United States

Proto-Trumpism is based on Donald Trump's beliefs during the 2000 presidential election. Trump sought the nomination of the Reform Party which was beginning to collapse at the time. Some of Trump's positions were similar to his 2016 campaign such as lowering taxes, eliminating the federal debt, opposing NAFTA, increasing pressure on China, increasing military spending, and getting tough on crime. In contrast, Trump also supported universal healthcare and gun control reform. Trump named Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate and got into a heated rivalry with Pat Buchanan, the other main candidate for the Reform Party. Trump attacked Buchanan for his anti-Semitic and homophobic views as well as calling him a "Neo-Nazi" and a "Hitler lover".

Italy

Stefanism/Liberal Fascism

Stefanism/Liberal Fascism is based on the thoughts of Italian political figure Alberto De' Stefani.

He was born in Verona, Veneto, Italy on October 6th 1879 his father named Pietro Stefani was a lawyer along with his mother Carolina Zamboni. In 1903, he graduated in Law at Padua Collage and majored in Economics at Venice he later became a lecturer at the technical institute of Vicenza in for several years.

In 1914, Alberto De' Stefani was influenced by Enrico Corradini leader of the "Italian Nationalist Association" then Stefani served as a soldier in World War One (1914-1918) where he rose to the rank of captain in 1917. He joined the National Fascist Party (PFN) in which he soon assumed the role of official economist of the party while he collaborated with an Italian newspaper owned by Benito Mussolini called "The People of Italy".

In 1922, Alberto De' Stefani was in charge of the political economy in Venice but then in October 31th 1922, after the March on Rome he was appointed as the Minister of Finance and then in December 21th 1922, he was appointed to the Treasury by Benito Mussolini in which Stefani maintained the positions in a single ministry merged from January 1923 to July 1925. He was a Liberal economist but Socially Conservative who favoured policies such as free-trade, lowering taxes without too much government interference and privatisation of businesses such as the communications industry but also he is a former talwart leader in the Centre Party. He implemented a policy of liberalizing the economy while reducing expenditure with an increase in indirect taxes to the advantage of direct ones while he also simplified various laws deriving from the war regime in order to give force to the productive mechanisms such as lighten the work of public administrations, post offices and railways in particular. From 1922 to 1926, Alberto De' Stefani started a period of Italy's rapid economic expansion especially in the industrial sector in which manufacturing production grows by 10% per year that contributed to a strong expansion of exports and in four years public spending went from 35% to 13% of GDP while the number of unemployed went from 600,000 people to 100,000 people that lead to the goal of a balanced budget for the financial year of 1924.

In 1925, Alberto De' Stefani began a policy that was to destroy paper money in order to curb inflation with a total of 320 million Italian lira were incinerated such as in March 30th, 1925 in Rome bags full of Italian Iira were destined for incineration are being unloaded but while the results of his policies has been positive also his position in the government structure deteriorated due to the opposition of different groups who saw him Pro-Industrialist or excessively Liberal such as the large southern landowners who has the most representative exponents of Capitalism and the Northern family in which they both had no interest in a policy of free trade or tax cuts in subsidies from which they benefited. Stefani came into conflict with the Bank of Italy that resulted in the banking law of 1926 along with Bonaldo Stringher who is a general manager and they are both for the control of monetary policy that was in the terms of discretion in the numerous bank rescue interventions while in addition, Stefani was firmly opposed to deflationary policies aimed at bringing the Lira to Quota 90. Stefani took advantage of the dictatorial powers afforded to Mussolini's regime to enact certain reforms in which had previously been blocked by the parliament such as a policy that issues a measure aimed at crushing stock market speculation along with other policies in which wages along with the cost of living fell under his direction and by mid-1925 the economy was heading towards crisis that lead to Mussolini replacing Stefani with Giuseppe Volpi who is Corporatist and a representative of the oligopoly that belongs to the electrical industry.

Alberto de' Stefani became a professor of economic & financial policy at the University of Rome while in December 1925, he was appointed dean of the newly founded "Faculty of Political Science" but then in 1926, he became an economic notist for the Corriere della Sera Newspaper and in 1928 he became a member of the "Grand Council of Fascism" until the collapse of Benitio Mussolini's regime however he launched an attack on what he felt was the abundantly liberal legislation being passed on marriage that arguinged that those who chose not to procreate should be denied the same legal rights as parents. In 1929, Stefani was re-elected deputy to the Chamber while in 1930, he re-joined the "Grand Council of Fascism" after he left for political reasons but in 1932, Stefani left the camber for his appointment as Academician of Italy and during the 1930s, he begins to be seen by some hierarchs with suspicion because he is too autonomous while His activity was therefore allowed exclusively in the cultural spheres but not the political spheres.

In 1935, Alberto de' Stefani becomes a member of a scientific institution called "Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei" while years later in 1937, he was appointed senior advisor to the Chinese National Government in which he devoted himself to the work of administrative reorganization along with civil mobilization of Kuomintang China and he was appointed by General Chiang Kai-shek as a high economic-financial advisor for a year.

In 1939, Alberto de' Stefani becomes Vice-President of the "Royal Academy of Italy" but then in early 1941, during World War Two (1939-1945) he began to show impatience along with disappointment towards the Italian regime by publishing the "Confidenze e Convinzioni" in which was censored but it was one of the very few signs of criticism of Mussolini's regime and in 1942, he was a commentator on economic issues for a newspaper called "La Stampa".

In January 1943, Alberto de' Stefani was appointed president of the "State Polygraphic Institute" while also become associated with a tendency that included fellow movement veterans such Emilio De Bono, Italo Balbo & Luigi Federzoni that were highly critical of the introduction of Nazi Germany with its racial laws that was influenced into Italy but in July 25th 1943, he voted in favour of Dino Grandi's agenda in which resulted in the arrest order of Benito Mussolini and during Operation Oak during the Italian Civil War (1943-1945), he took refuge in a convent but later in 1944 at the Italian Social Republic he was was sentenced to death in Absentia at the Verona trial but it did not happened.

In 1947, Alberto de' Stefani was referred to the High Court of Justice while being acquitted of the charge of collaboration with Nazi Germany but then he was rehabilitated and reinstated in his university positions after his life in politics such as serving as a lecturer in economics at the "Vicenza Institute of Technology" that lead him to be appointed as professor at the University of Rome while dedicated the last years of his life to studies or journalism and in January 15th 1969, Stefani died at the age of 89.

Personality

NatLib's favorite hobby is discussing political events (especially if it's something "dumb" done by progressives — although he does take some of their advice from time to time) on YouTube or other online communities, usually with other right-wing ideologies.

While being fairly open minded to some social issues, he often holds rather suspicious attitude toward people that are not his citizens. His preferences of anti-globalization and stricter immigration laws, as well as his sympathy towards more far-right Ideologies often brought him to conflicts with his more central-to-left relatives, especially Neoliberalism. His relationship with National Conservatism can be sometimes a bit too tenacious nonetheless he still considers him an important and valuable ally,his best friends are Conservative Liberalism and National Libertarianism.

He also hates it when being censored online for his views, constantly bringing up how he should have "Free-Speech".

Stylistic Notes

NatLib can be portrayed as acting like Navalny, Zelensky, or Lincoln.
Natlib is always talking about how being proud of your nation and culture is compatible with being liberal, and hates when people confuse Liberalism with Progressivism.
Natlib can be seen complaining about how things like " radical gender ideology" and " radical Islam" are being accepted by his family members.

How to Draw

Draw a ball with eyes
On it draw the tricolor of White (top), Gold (middle) and Dark Blue (Bottom)
On the Gold bar draw 3 stars with either the dark blue or the white.

You're done.

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White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)
Gold	#FFDB28	rgb(255, 219, 40)
Dark Blue	#39386E	rgb(57, 56, 110)

Relationships

Fellow Liberal Patriots

National Libertarianism - My extreme form, so based!
Patriotism - I love my country and there's nothing wrong with that!
Nationalism - My parent nursed me, just like my nation nursing my citizens!
Conservative Liberalism - Fellow classical liberal, we have many things in common though he's a slightly more culturally conservative than me.
Cultural Nationalism - I am proud of my culture and heritage.
Homoconservatism - We're the true LGBT allies, unlike those Islamo-Leftists who took Fortuyn's life! ~~Though I'm somewhat skeptical of the "T" part.~~
Progressive Conservatism - Dude... that's very based!
Constitutional Monarchism - Long live to queen Elizabeth! May she rest in peace.
Monetarism - The best form to manage our national currency.
Right Reformism - I like your plan.
Isolationism - Best foreign policy, but calm down with him.
Kemalism - Though you may be a leftist, you're one of the few based ones. Chose modernization, human rights and the enlightenment over him. Nice going pal. Just drop the 'statism' part please.
Gaullism, Venizelism and Jan Emmmanuel Thought - Most respectable leftists. But again, statism.
Fiscal Conservatism - No more public debt, high taxes, deficit budgets and spending on useless things like foreign aid, welfare for non-citizens and "too big to fail" rescues, for my nation.
Constitutionalism - Awesome!
Eco-Capitalism - The best solution to environmental problems.
Zionism - The Jews do have a right to move to their national homeland! Also, Israel is based.
Liberal Tridemism - based despite being part of the KMT, some of my followers in Taiwan vote for you.
Menemism - Carlos Menem era un capo!
Girondism - You're the good one in the french revolution.
Jeffersonian Democracy - Another legendary patriot! Drop your anti-capitalist leanings though.
Hayekism - A great intellectual of the right against big and one world government. But calm down with your advocacy for dictatorship.
Laicism - We must fight all forms of religious fundamentalism, especially when it comes to Islam.
Cultural Christianity - Best ChristNat and the most powerful weapon against islam.
National Democracy - We share many opinions on the economy, democracy, social cohesion, and sovereignty.
~~Washingtonism, Bull Moose Progressivism, and Jeffersonian Democracy - MOUNT RUSHMORE ASSEMBLE!~~
Right-Wing Populism - You're a good ally for the many part, though you be a bit annoying and goes a bit far sometimes and won't shut up when you should, but I know you mean well. ~~You do, right? Just promise you won't embarrass me this time.~~.

Tolerable Iliberals

Mediacracy - I like the fact many of your Western variants support Ukraine. But BuzzFeed is a flaming pile of garbage. Thankfully, it is shut down now.
European Federalism - Brexit goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrr. But my Ukrainian and Taiwanese variants loves you.
Reactionary Liberalism - Me but on crack.
Alt-Lite - Promotes my ideas to the youth, but I will never forgive Carl Benjamin, Batten and Robinson from stealing UKIP from me.
Libertarianism - Too extreme but in modern elections I will often vote for you against the right and left.
Civic Nationalism - My citizens are my citizens! But you let too many people come in.
Neoliberalism - Your economics is pretty good and Thatcher was a great inspiration to the Brexit movement. But your modern overt supporters are all cringe globalists, intervertionists and europhiles. Also you are the main culprit of outsourcing. Don't violate on my national sovereignty!
Authoritarian Capitalism - Some of my variants follow your economics, and I love your opposition to commies, but calm down on the authoritarianism.
Bismarckism - We helped each other once, but you're too collectivist, protectionist and a closet socialist (though you deny the latter). At least we both agree that Lincoln's death was a tragedy.
Pan-Nationalism - We used to be good friends back in the day, especially in Germany, Austria, Czechia, and Italy to some extent. Nowadays he starts to sound just like this guy, but he constantly denies it.
National Conservatism - You have the right ideas for the most part, though can you be a little less culturally conservative and a lot less statist? Also, just because most of you are economically liberal doesn't mean you're me! Quit hijacking my parties, like you've done with th em!
Classical Liberalism - Look dad, I don't really disagree with you, it's just that I think my citizens' lives matter more.
Liberalism - I'm just, uh- prioritizing, okay?
Paleoconservatism - A bigot with some good ideas and concepts, but ultimately still a bigot.
National Agrarianism - Ah yes, a return to a simpler life. But be less statist, please.
Gremialismo - Chilean pal, but helping and simping for dictators is really not my cup of tea.
Environmentalism - On one hand, I really like the fact that preserving the environment helps our nation prosper, but on the other, well... let's just say that a lot of my followers aren't exactly fans of yours. Oh and a lot of you also tend to pander to the left, so I guess that explains it.
Industrialism - My old acquaintances with exact opposite problems than the former one. I mean I like you, but how can we improve our citizens' life if you keep outsourcing those jobs? Also, tone down that chimney a bit will ye? People nowadays ain't that fond of smog.
Welfare Chauvinism - Geert Wilders is based and welfare should be restricted to just citizens, that we can get along on.
Feminism - First-wave feminism is definitely what feminism should be. It's sad that those identity politics obsessed SJWs took over.
Trumpism - I supported you back in 2000, but nowadays, well, let's just say you have your ups and downs. But the way you still make lefties mad is based. Still, quit it with those tariffs. And Zelensky is no dictator.
Bidenism - A fellow liberal but still your regulations were cringe. However thank you for supporting Taiwan and Ukraine (National Liberal countries) against th em .
Islamic Democracy - A Muslim I'd definitely get along with if he didn't help certain reactionaries rise to power... Still your Bengal variant is gigabased.
Left-Wing Nationalism - Left-wing statist who cares about the nation? Now I've seen everything... #Lexit was cool and some say that we get along in Taiwan.
Yellow Unionism - My labour wing, class collaboration is essential for nations to prosper.^[39] But your reactionaryism and socialism are cringe.
Korwinism - He really knows how to troll those SJWs so he's based in that regard. But he can get too homophobic and sexist- and an unironic absolute monarchist?! Sheesh, and some people call me crazy...
Social Liberalism - Meh, bureaucratic progressive... But DPP is based.
Third Way - I mean, it's actually not that bad, but Blair's administration was kinda awful.
Anarcho-Capitalism - I'm a fan of individualism, property, civil liberties, and free markets too, but God, you're weird.
Macronism - You're a cringe globalist and eurocrat. But I appreciate that you're taking a stance against those Islamists.^[40]
Neoconservatism - I'm mixed on you. Fighting communists and Islamist terrorists is incredibly based. However, these military interventions have, unfortunately, escalated the refugee crisis beyond control. The Iraq War and the NATO intervention in Libya were giant mistakes indeed.
Separatism - Sometimes good, sometimes horrible, that's all I have to say. ~~But if you dare to secede from our Stanistan, well illegally that is, I swear to God torturing you will be my pleasure!~~
Bojoism - Too statist, but at least you got Brexit done (finally) and lifted Covid restrictions.
Radical Centrism - Too moderate, but Albert Rivera, Ross Perot and Michael Lind are ok.
Integral Neo-Darwinism - Great... An alt-rightoid claiming to be me. But I have to admit you have a good amount of based takes on economics, immigration, liberalism, democracy, nation, and so on. Drop all edgy racist and xenophobic garbage and maybe then we can work together.
Utilitarian Ethnonationalism - Another one.
Breivikism - I condemn this murderous racist piece of trash! ~~but you have some based ideas and views~~
Zemmourism - You're like a Jewish French version of Donald Trump, but also a straight-up reactionary. ~~I voted for him in the French elections.~~

Liberal Conservatism - Too moderate however you are close to th em which is really based.

Enemies of Liberty and the Nation

Neighborstan - What an insane, backwards, totalitarian nation!
Nazism - You actually made nationalism worse!
Fascism - Filthy totalitarian despot that ruined Gentile, Volpio and Stefani.
Awami League - Bangladeshi version of the above. At least you are gone now. And I am now the most popular party in Bangladesh.^[41]
Ultranationalism - Stop infiltrating my movement, you insane totalitarian! I'll never forgive you for what you did to UKIP!
Alt-Right - SHUT. UP. PLEASE! You're hijacking my movements and I really hate the fact that some of my followers like you. Just leave me alone you neo-Nazi scumbag!
National Anarchism - You're just a Nazi who hates the state.
Pinochetism - Even if you also hate commies, I stand against dictatorships.
Neo-Ottomanism - Radical islamist who's in part responsible for the mass immigration crisis!
Social Democracy - Darn bureaucrats. Also, Bernie and AOC are commies in denial!
Democratic Socialism - Like the above, and many of you are actually commies!
Marxism–Leninism - Cope and seethe about the collapse of the USSR, tankie.
Trotskyism - You're an illiberal communist globalizer. Probably the worst ideology I could think of.
National Bolshevism - Nazism + Communism = Whatever this is.
Islamic Theocracy - Please integrate into my culture or go home.
Imperialism - 1848-49 revolutions were based, and so was the dissolution of the USSR.
State Liberalism - You ruined my name and damaging the nation. Also, #woke for #woke's sake is stupid, not to mention you're trying to force it on everyone.
Radical Feminism - Neither liberal nor feminist. You've ruined your mother's effort.
Jihadism - GET. OUT. YOU TERRORIST!
Authoritarian Conservatism - Even if I think your cultural views are agreeable for the most part, get out of my sight, you despotic relic of times past!
Racial Nationalism - For the last time, citizens are citizens you racist bigot!
Ethnonationalism - And the same goes to you, xenophobic trash! ~~Although I agree that mass illegal foreign immigration into my country is a serious issue.~~
Protectionism - Free trade and markets are a must for a truly prosperous nation! ~~but your fair-trade variant is very nice and useful, also thanks for your help in Romania and US~~
Dengism - Free Xinjiang! Free Hong Kong! ~~But honestly, Li Ao was kinda based.~~
Putinism - Down with the Party of Crooks and Thieves! Also, hands off Ukraine!
- - You are using my catchphrase!
Globalism - You are pure evil.
World Federalism - A more mannered version of above created to caught us with the guard down into his tramp, your tricks don't work with me!
Alter-Globalism - Red mannered version of above and my opposite.
Liberal Socialism - You are a closet commie, deal with that.
Corporatocracy - You are destroying markets and national sovereignty!
Anti-Japaneseism - WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?
Confederatism - Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam!
Tridemism - BuT wE'rE AlL CHineSE!!! But hey, can't expect much from a bunch of silly heads who expelled Granpa Li and purged my grand grandfather Chiang Wei-shui's TPP.

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Literature

Nation, State, and Economy by Ludwig Von Mises
National liberals and their progeny approaching the peculiar developments in peculiar in central European Liberal party traditions 1867-1918, by Oskar Mulej
National liberals heirs of the old Austria:deviations in liberal party traditions,1867-1918 by Oskar Mulej
The Splintered Party: National Liberalism in Hessen and the Reich, 1867-1918 by Dan S. White
Liberal Nationalism’s Role in the Development of the German Nation-State by Matthew Burke
On The difficulty of being a national-liberal in nineteenth-century Finland by Jussu Kurunmäki
The National Liberalism of Peruvian Econonist José Manuel Rodríguez
National und liberal by Dieter Grillmayer (In German)
Polityka i gospodarstwo by Roman Rybarski (in Polish)
Wreckage of eight years of purple by Pym Fortuyn (in Dutch)
Restoring Britishnes by UKIP
Believe in Britain by UKIP
Finns Youth Party Program
List of numbers of L'Azione
The America We Deserve by Donald J. Trump
How to Fight Against Domestic and international Terrorism by Benjamin Netanyahu
Bibi:My Story Benjamin Netanyahu

Articles

nationalliberalisme (In Danish)
Mises nationalism right self determination and problem of immigration
Som Slovensky Liberal (In Slovenian)
Liberalisme et Nation (In France)
Liberalisme et Inmigration (In France)
Liberalism Needs a Nation
Le ragioni Dell Interventismo Nazional-Liberale nel Pensiero di Gioacchino Volpe (In Italian)
Liberalnazionalismo (In Italian)
Social-federalism vs National-liberalism
True Beliefs and Opportunyism:Navalny's Tangled Political Development
Inmigration Restriction and Liberal Democracy
From neoliberal globalism to neoliberal nationalism: An interview with Quinn Slobodian

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Notes

↑ There are rumours that he cooperates with SBU
↑ As a native Russian speaker himself, Zelenskyy has sought to be inclusive of ethnic/linguistic Russians within the Ukrainian nation, while at the same time decolonising Ukraine of Russian/Soviet topography etc.
↑ Government programs such as National Cashback.
↑ Russian propagandists (as well as other opponents of Zelensky) have depicted the president to be incompetent, fickle and addicted to drugs, in both satirical and serious contexts.