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They're yesterday in the same way the Punic Wars would have been for Julius Caesar. You'd be surprised at the amount that can change in a few centuries.

I'm no baby out with the bathwater neo-reactionary, don't misunderstand me. Liberalism, especially in the English context, evolved out of a very old constitutional heritage. But you're sort of proving my point how, in order for it to work properly, liberalism has to be constrained by older ideas...

In a weird way, I'd call the current American Right (it's rank and file, not its leaders for the moment) Romans of a stripe. In order to properly defend itself from an Enlightenment that cannot stop Enlightening, they've (unwittingly or not) latched onto some far older attitudes as a new bed...