In The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America, authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge spend considerable time rehashing the conventional wisdom that says the United States was, from roughly 1900 to 1980, the world’s Great Progressive Hope, a woke nation led by men of liberal values. Micklethwait and Woodridge write: “Fifty years ago, America lacked More
Source: The Myth of a Golden Age of American liberalism – CounterPunch.org