Saturday, June 18, 2022

Republicans Lust For An Ignorant, Bigoted Past

"What are the political purposes of nostalgia? Why does the GOP idealize the American past? And what can this backward-looking perspective give or take away from our collective future?

"On Now & Then, Heather and Joanne discuss the role of nostalgia in American political history, from Puritan Jeremiads, to the 1913 Gettysburg and Fort Wagner reunions, to the emergence in the 1970s of a cultural obsession with the 1950s."

Click on the link below for a podcast presenting the harm from looking back instead of forward:


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