In the long run caps are dangerously illiberal.
Expressing illiberal views may bring some politicians into temporary prominence.
It is true that the products of science have been put sometimes to illiberal USES.
Egypt’s Mubarak, Tunisia’s Ben Ali, and Syria’s Assad built brutal (and deeply illiberal) police states with strong secularist support.
She promises continuity in economic policy mixed with social giveaways and illiberal talk of using the death penalty and anti-terrorist laws against crime.
The result would be an increasingly corporatist, illiberal Europe; growing frustration in Britain and annoyance in Brussels; and, perhaps, Britain's eventual exit from the union.
That will create problems, but the only way to stop that happening would be to make it illegal for someone to have his genome sequenced—and nobody is seriously suggesting that illiberal restriction.
