Centrists Reclaim Moral Language

Saving liberalism requires more than technocratic fixes: centrists must couple market‑friendly, rights‑based policies with renewed appeals to civic virtue, communal obligations, and concrete cultural frames that address social disorder and elite aloofness. The piece argues that failing to do so hands intellectual cover to postliberal critics who claim liberalism's individualism destroyed social constraints. — If adopted, this framing would reshape party messaging and policy mixes across Western democracies, turning debates about liberal decline into fights over cultural narrative as well as economics.