Liberal Neutrality Needs Shared Faith

The speech argues liberal democracy works only if all sides accept courts, prosecutors, and the civil service as neutral umpires and agree to abide by their rulings. When major factions come to see these institutions as partisan weapons, the rule‑of‑law truce collapses and illiberal movements gain traction. The system’s stability is thus a belief-dependent equilibrium, not a self-enforcing mechanism. — This reframes legitimacy crises as failures of shared belief in neutrality, guiding how we diagnose polarization and repair institutional guardrails.