A key failure of American progressivism is that it places style above substance.
But this is what happens when a movement has little hope for tomorrow and no love for today. When the
past
is the only period from which a person draws his inspiration and sense of
moral certitude,
that person will begin to romanticize and even fetishize the past, litigating endlessly that which has already been resolved, misunderstanding
modern conflicts
through a specifically narrow historical lens, and even going as far as to roleplay as historical characters.
REPUBLICANS NAVIGATE CULTURE WAR SETBACK ON ABORTION
For the American progressive, there is no more exciting and honorable a period than the civil rights era of the 1960s and 1970s. They want desperately to experience for themselves the righteousness of those days — so desperately, in fact, that some have even adopted the…
