In the early days of the USSR, many mainstream establishment figures praised the Soviet Union. Even by the time of a tyrant like Joseph Stalin, prominent figures in the establishment were praising his regime. It eventually became clear, though, that the soviets were brutal totalitarian thugs.
Today, we see praise for China from people like Bill Gates and from media sources like the Atlantic. They laud China's authoritarian policies. This is an old story. Some establishment westerners see authoritarianism and despotism as a superior system. Modern China, though, was completely rebooted by the fruits of western freedom.
The flourishing of the western world is the result of freedom. Centralization will eventually kill off the productivity and innovation of western economies.
It's getting too obvious that the dangers to the western way of life aren't found in Moscow or Beijing, but are in think tanks, universities, and corporate boardrooms of the western world. They're in New York, Harvard, Yale, and Silicon Valley.
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