"The Fate of Unreasonable People"

I came across, while looking for a citation, this paper, by Fuat Gursozlu, a philosopher at Loyola University Maryland, "a Jesuit Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person."  The paper is called "Political Liberalism and the Fate of Unreasonable People."  I suppose it could be seen as simply yet another of the many, many exercises in Rawls exegesis but . . . I actually found it more than a little chilling (in part because it is hard to avoid the unsettling apparent fact that the position defended in the paper is probably entirely mainstream, at least in the academy).  Here is the conclusion:

The practical political task of containing unreasonable doctrines is primarily concerned with the reformation of unreasonable citizens over time. Rawls is aware that when unreasonable doctrines grow so strong, it may be too late for the liberal democratic regime. The argument for the normative stability of the regime and the account of containment as transformation points out the need to prevent the unreasonable from becoming strong enough to overwhelm the liberal political regime. Steven Macedo points out that liberalism constitutes a regime that cannot help but shape citizens’ lives “deeply . . . and relentlessly.”  For Macedo, political liberalism should shape people’s commitments and habits “without exactly announcing that purpose on their face.”  This is a necessary political work that is beyond any “regret, apologies, or adjustment.” The account of containment as transformation centers on the idea expressed by Macedo: transformation of the unreasonable people living in a liberal political order without announcing that purpose in their face. 

"Forced to be free," redux.  Justice Jackson, no doubt, would have had some appropriate things to say about this . . . .