Dissident Rightists can at least partly agree with Norton here - namely, that in the time period when Western might and wealth were created, we were not yet any kind of "liberal democracies" by a long shot, but oftentimes ruthless right-wing authoritarians and colonialists. Only after the West had become rich, and inherited wealth and security had made its populations lazy, soft and decadent, did shitlib democracies emerge as a result of social decay (and active Leftist agitation and subversion) in the 20th century.
In other words, the West has not been "liberal democratic" for a very long time, but it is rather a recent modernist aberration: