National Liberalism

Not to be confused with National Libertarianism and Liberal Nationalism.

National Liberalism, also known as the Liberalist Movement, is an economically centre-right to right-wing, civically center to moderately libertarian, culturally center-right to right and nationalist ideology that is the child of Classical Liberalism and Nationalism. He is also fairly similar to his friend, Civic Nationalism, although Civic Nationalist is usually more moderate. In contrast to National Conservatism, he holds liberal stances on economics, civic liberties and usually on social issues such as LGBT+ rights, drug use, prostitution and/or abortion, but is very nationalistic when it comes to things like immigration, Islam and/or international affairs, is critical of many modern-day progressive movements.

National Liberalism

"We got #Brexit done!"

Basic Information

Aliases

Liberalist™ Movement
NatLib
NatLibtard
Classical Liberal Nationalism

National Conservative Liberalism
Faragism
Right-Liberalism ( Germany)
Fortuynism
Nativist Liberalism
Third Camp ( Austria)

Old Liberalism(some countries ) Romanian Liberalism
Austroliberalism
Peaceful Nationalism (by Mises)
Alt-Liberalism
Proto-Alt-Lite
Navalnyism

Alignment(s)

RightUnity

LibRight
Capitalists
Liberals
Nationalists
Culturally Right

Ideological Information

Influenced by:

Classical Liberalism
Conservative Liberalism

Nationalism
Right-Wing Populism
National Conservatism
Civic Nationalism
Laicism (some)
Pan-Nationalism (some)
Liberal Conservatism (some)
Liberaltarianism (some)
Welfare Chauvinism (some)
Semi-Direct Democracy (some)
Social Liberalism ( DPP)

Influenced

National Libertarianism

Bibism
Alt-Lite
Reactionary Liberalism
LGBT Conservatism (some)
Liberal Conservatism (Romania)
National Democracy
Right-Wing Populism (some)

Notable people

Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) Germany
Anders Lange (1904-1974) Norway
Mogens Glistrup (1926-2008) Denmark
Václav Klaus (1941-) Czech Republic
Pim Fortuyn (1948-2002) Netherlands
Geert Wilders (1963-) Netherlands
Nigel Farage (1964-) UK
Carl Benjamin (1979-) UK

Notable examples

Springtime of Nations

Brexit
Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Character Information

Likes

Civil Liberties
Sovereignty
Markets

Patriotism
Constitution
Brexit
Right-nationalism (to some extent)
Free Speech
Sargon

Dislikes

Wokeness
Mass-Immigration
Radical Islamism
The EU
Bureaucrats
Censorship Laws
🥤 Milkshakes being thrown at him
Tho se who ruin its name and reputation

Song

Nigel Farage - Without Me

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.

In Europe, it is mostly eurosceptic, ranging from both soft (reforming the EU in order loosen the grip on their country and the country's economy), such as Civic Democratic Party in Czechia, and hard (leaving the EU entirely) forms of Euroscepticism, such as UKIP in the UK.

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 root 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, both with economically liberal views, but not always when it comes to civil liberties), 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.

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 taxes 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 postition on Immigration and Islam.

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.

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 recieve 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.

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.

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.

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 after Lange's death he took the leadership of the party but he abandoned the party in 1976. After that he was in different right-nationalist parties until 2007. He advocated for stricter immigration laws and reduction of it (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 less regulations and taxes.

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 this George) 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.

Russia

Alexei Navalny is an anti-Putin activist and the leader as well as co-founder of the Russia of the Future. He supports economic liberalization, privatization of state enterprises, prohibiting the state-owned media outlets, ending censorship, right to posses firearms, legalisation of same-sex marriage, abolition of conscription, anti-inmigration, anti-Islam and some anti-Ukrainian stances.

Taiwan

The Democratic Progressive Party is a culturally progressive, economically 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 and their ultimate goal of reunification with China (ideally under KMT/ROC's rule).

Their overall cultural progressivism and support for welfare programs makes them differ from many other National Liberal parties. Nonetheless, they are Social Liberal and promote Taiwanese identity. This tendency was related to the nation's White Terror history and the repression against Taiwanese identity and liberal values during said period.

United Kingdom

UK Independence Party or UKIP for short, is a hard Eurosceptic party famously led by Nigel Farage. While commonly regarded as a Right-Populist and National Conservative party, it has been influenced by Classical Liberalism in terms of economics and to some extent civic issues, with a large amount of it's original voter base being libertarians. Though the party holds mostly conservative views on social issues like LGBT rights or crime, it has also supported more legalization of drug use.

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

British Anti-SJW youtuber Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad has consistently called himself a classical liberal, despite his strong support of conservative and nationalist movements such as Brexit, with him being a former member of the aforementioned UKIP. More recently he has coined the phrase "liberalist" to describe himself, differentiating from the progressive left-liberals he mocks.

Personality

NatLib's favorite hobby is discussing political events (especially if it's something "dumb" done by File:Progress.png 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.

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

How to Draw

Flag of National Liberalism

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	255, 255, 255
Gold	#FFDB28	255, 219, 40
Dark Blue	#39386E	57, 56, 110

Relationships

Friends

Libertarianism - He's a good friend of mine, even if he can be a bit extreme at times.
Libertarian Conservatism - Like the guy above, but more culturally conservative.
National Libertarianism - An even more anti-statist version of myself, still 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.
Civic Nationalism - My friend who totally gets me! My citizens are my citizens!
National Agrarianism - Ah yes, a return to a simpler life. Be less statist, please.
LGBT Conservatism - We're the true LGBT allies, unlike those Islamo-Leftists who took Fortuyn's life! ~~Though I'm somewhat skeptical of the T part.~~
Alt-Lite - Overall a pretty good friend of mine. Plus Sargon is based. Just try to distance yourself from him more and believe in conspiracy theories less.
Right-Wing Populism - You're a good ally for the most 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.~~
Progressive Conservatism - Dude...... that's very based!
Austrolibertarianism - Mises was a very wise man.
Kemalism - Chose modernization and human rights over him. Nice going pal. (Just drop the 'statism' part please.)

Frenemies

Liberal Conservatism - We both agree on finding a balance between conservative and liberal stances on social issues. But he calls me "racist" and kept delaying Brexit.
Conservatism - I think you're pretty ok a lot of the time, but have you considered to be a bit more open to new ideas? Like come on, gays are citizens too!
Bismarckism - We helped each other once, but you're too collectivist, protectionist and a damn closet socialist (though you deny the latter).
Pan-Nationalism - I used to work with him in Germany and Austria. But outside of those two countries he's just Imperialism in denial.
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 some of you are economically liberal doesn't mean you're me! Quit hijacking my parties, like you've done with th em!
File:Progress.png Progressivism - You aren't bad in theory, but your antics can get quite ridiculous.
Classical Liberalism - Look, Pa, I don't really disagree with you, it's just that I think my citizens' lives matter more.
Liberalism - Same as dad. I'm just, uh- prioritizing, okay?
National Capitalism - Based economic views! Capitalism and nationalism? Yes please, but drop down the Nazi stuff, especially racism, will you?
Reactionary Liberalism - Says some very uncomfortable things regarding culture. But then again, even if he's pretty much me but on steroids, crack and other hard drugs, we are not the same!
Paleoconservatism - Those are some great ideas you've got there. If only you weren't so statist, homophobic and racist...
Paleolibertarianism - Just hang out with him less and we're good.
Authoritarian Capitalism - Lee Kuan Yew was kinda based. But fig leafed authoritarian? Cringe.
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 also you pander to the left too much 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.
Paternalistic Conservatism - Fellow Brexiteer, but your economic policies are pretty bureaucratic.
Welfare Chauvinism - Your social views are too extreme and your economics are too lefty for my liking. Though we both agree that Geert Wilders is extremely based, so now we at least get along on that.
Liberal Feminism - First wave feminism is definitely what feminism should be. It's sad that those identity politics obsessed SJWs took over.
Trumpism - Let's just say that you have your ups and downs... The way you make lefties mad is based though. Still, quit it with those tariffs.
Islamic Democracy - A much better Muslim, but then again you helped some certain reactionaries rise to power...
Left-Wing Nationalism - Leftist statist cuck...... who cares about the nation? So anyway, how's #Lexit going?
National Democracy - We share many opinions on economy and social cohesion, although he can be very xenophobic.
Cultural Nationalism - What do you mean "liberalism isn't a culture"?
Korwinism - He really knows how to troll those goddamn SJWs so he's based in that regard! But he can get too homophobic and sexist though. Wait- and he wants monarchy? Wow, and some people call me crazy...
Liberaltarianism - Based!... For a progressive.
Third Way - I mean, it's actually not that bad, but Blair's administration was kinda awful.
Social Liberalism - Meh, bureaucratic progressive... We do come up with some based results though.
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 now.

Enemies

National Socialism - You ruined nationalism, so fuck off, psycho! The fact that many nationalist movements admire you is just disgusting!
Ultranationalism - Stop infiltrating my movement, you insane totalitarian!
Alt-Right - SHUT UP, PLEASE! You're hijacking my movements and I really don't care if some of my followers like you! Just leave me alone you goddamn Nazi wannabe!
National Anarchism - You're just a Nazi who hates the state.
Fujimorism - A classic example of a national conservative with economically liberal views. Even if you also hate commies, dictatorships disgust me.
Social Democracy - Fucking bureaucrats.
Democratic Socialism - Bernie and AOC are commies in denial!
Marxism–Leninism - Yes, I'm a nationalist and a liberal. Problem?
Stalinism - The Satan himself!
National Bolshevism - Both Nazi AND commie combined?! Oh you have got to be kidding me!
Reactionary Socialism - Feudalist, crusadist, socialist, and very racist. No thanks!
Islamic Theocracy - Please integrate into my culture or go home.
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.
Neoliberalism - You force migrants on me and your regulations & taxes are killing us! Glad we're finally leaving the EU now.
European Federalism - Brexit goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Anarcho-Communism - Grow up, kiddo.
Antifa - You're the real fascist! ~~Please stop throwing milkshakes at me.~~
Radical Feminism - Neither liberal or feminism. You spoil girl is ruining your mother's effort.
Jihadism - GET. OUT. YOU TERRORIST!
Islamic Marxism - THIS IS WHAT GLOBALISTS TRULY WANT!
Mediacracy - BuzzFeed is a flaming pile of garbage.
Racial Nationalism - For the last time, citizens are citizens you racist bigot!
Ethnic Nationalism - And the same goes to you, xenophobic trash! ~~Although I agree that mass illegal foreign immigration into my country is cringe.~~
Protectionism - Free trade and markets are a must for a truly prosperous nation!
Tridemism - "bUT WE aRe aLL CHinEsE!!!"