Shaking my head hearing a popular center-left journalist talking about how the midcentury—an era of McCarthyism and massive resistance—was a golden age of depolarized American politics.
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I wonder how much of it is also the New Left’s fault—from Mills on, New Left social theory and historiography have insisted the 50s was the “quiet” decade, the 60s the explosive one, even if this was always a self-flattering account that elided the brutal battles of postwar years
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Yeah, it's partly a story of periodization, how with the New Left, the "post-war" period of 1945-1963 got conflated into a single quiet decade when in fact 1945-1952 was turbulent with a still strong left presence and real quietism was 1952-1960 (or maybe 1963).
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