Re:Anti-Tax Fervor Closed Their Libraries. Now Residents Are...
by dragonwriter on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:19PM
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> During my first government class sometime in the early 90s socialism, progressivism, populism and libertarianism were low single digit demographics in US politics.
No, they weren't all, though “progressivism” as a label wasn't current (what it now refers to was mostly referred to as “liberalism” in the 1990s).
But it's true that the early 1990s was the height of the neoliberal consensus when there was a historically narrow range of ideas within mainstream political thought on core issues outside of the partisan division on culture war issues. But that was an exception, not the norm.
No, they weren't all, though “progressivism” as a label wasn't current (what it now refers to was mostly referred to as “liberalism” in the 1990s).
But it's true that the early 1990s was the height of the neoliberal consensus when there was a historically narrow range of ideas within mainstream political thought on core issues outside of the partisan division on culture war issues. But that was an exception, not the norm.