@MisuseCase @williampietri they might have been right, they might have been wrong. we think it worked out in retrospect, but that was very contingent (on rather extraordinary work by LBJ and God knows what else). 1/

@MisuseCase @williampietri 60s era protest broadly left us with Nixon making “peace with honor”. between 1968 to 1992 we get one four-year interlude of weak and unpopular less right-wing government, American social democracy is largely undone, then Democrats believe they must become “new” — economically neoliberal and “tough on crime” — to contest elections in America. 2/

@MisuseCase @williampietri yet people with leftish stripes broadly look back upon the era nostalgically, and lionize those movements — which did in LBJ, our most social democratic president — as somehow successful, as example social movements to be emulated. 3/

@MisuseCase @williampietri it is a bit insane. /fin