Obviously, it depends on what it meant by “apolitical.” For a certain crowd, influenced directly or indirectly by Carl Schmitt, everything is political. Such a crowd tends to see agitation and conflict as ends in themselves.
For classical liberals, by contrast, politics is one domain amongst many. There’s a time to do a politics and a time to do other th…
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