"...During the Civil War, and again during the Depression and the Second World War, first Lincoln and then Franklin Roosevelt argued that the nation was struggling to prove that modern democracy--its invention--could work. In each of these cases, those opposed to the tide of history--Tories, Confederates, and conservative Republicans--had their own view of history, as well.
"Today, alas, we are burdened with not one, but two false views of history. The Republican ascendancy is based on the idea that the last 120 years of American history were mostly a mistake, because they favored the state over private interests...." DK
It starts looking rather like a Pyramid of Whig Misinterpretation, as I have noted....
Triumphant Conservative Republicans turning the tide against FDR....He seemed to imply that the tide of history never turns...
One might also argue that the tide has turned against Lincolnian Republicanism, against the Radical Republicans of Lincoln's Party, those most responsible for the debacle of Reconstruction, the Constitutional debacle, and their very, very, long aftermath.
Even Professor Kaiser seems now, in the face of the new conservative federalist judicial activism, to be becoming a states' rights advocate.
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