Are liberals resorting to majoritarianism?

"Democracy is imperiled,' wrote A Maira. "Capitalism seems to be shaking too." "Liberal ideology is facing a conceptual challenge. Liberals dislike national boundaries that divide the world. The liberal view is that every individual must have freedom. It accepts that some global governance will be required to prevent chaos arising if everyone were to do their thing. However, neoliberal globalization finds nations a troublesome interference with its liberal, global vision." "Liberals typically believe that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others, but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty." This confusion is problematic. On the one hand, liberals believe in adversariality in which there is political and economic competition, but on the other, liberals are suspicious of democracy which they see as majoritarianism, a tyranny of the majority over minorities. Ever since the BJP won absolute majority in parliament, Hindus have been accused of majoritarianism by Indian liberals. In the US, liberals are to the left of the political divide and criticize everything that President Donald Trump says or does. They conveniently forget that Barack Obama was celebrated as "Deporter in Chief" for deporting 2.5 million people between 2009 and 2015. Ronald Reagan, a Republican and hence considered to the right, described government as a problem, not the solution. Instead of individual freedom liberals are ganging up to deny the right to free speech, deny right to privacy by forcing people to use gender neutral bathrooms and deny opportunities if one dares to disagree. Students at Berkeley University, that bastion of liberalism, rioted when Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart was invited to speak. "Double standards are illiberal, arrogant, undemocratic and unfair. Liberalism has to be saved from hypocrites masquerading as liberals," wrote VA Nageswaran. Maybe liberalism has been too successful and attacks on it are because organized religion has lost its pre-eminent position, wrote Prof V Dahejia. "That void is now being filled by the opportunistic peddlers of chauvinistic majoritarianisms and fundamentalisms , whether in India or America. Much the same is happening in economics, with assorted nativist quacks peddling cures for the ills of liberal economics." Liberals want individual freedom and competition but in competition there are always losers who vastly outnumber winners. Those who have the means are enabling their children to succeed, wrote Prof K Basu, and populist politicians are taking advantage of the anger of the losers. That is democracy, the worst system of government, but with no competition.