…rather than “Republicans” since this is about a pseudo-nostalgia with a great penchant for creative memory. However, I want to be clear that I am not committing the fallacy of “equal time.”

I am a progressive leaning independent who sees a far more desperate thinking about our situation on the Right, the kind of desperation that leads to more problems than solutions. But I think what is being described here is a phenomenon of the Boomer generation. [Maybe it is a phenomenon to be found in any older generation???]

America has had many great achievements in its short lifetime. But while it may be returning to a gilded age it cannot claim a golden one.

“The essential characteristic of a nation is that all its individuals must have many things in common,” wrote the 19th-century French philosopher Ernest Renan. “And must have forgotten many things as well.” In just the postwar period, you’d have to forget McCarthy, segregation, Nixon, several assassinations, Vietnam and Iraq – to name but a few.

via The world as seen by Republicans, in a land of myth and amnesia | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian.