By Fareed Zakaria / September 17, 2012
Role reversal: Democrats are the ones celebrating America’s promise
Today the Republican Party seems to have a powerful nostalgia for an America that has gone away. Reagan was said to be three parts optimism and one part nostalgia. Bob Dole attacked those who believed the U.S. had improved over the past decades. Nostalgia is now commonplace on the right. Tea Party loves an America that is an abstraction or a memory. America today has changed. Many immigrants, liberated women and gays, myriad government programs, and open trade seem to scare the nostalgic Republicans. The Republican Party has an important message for America today, but to sell it, it should understand and appreciates today’s America. (105 words)
Role reversal: Democrats are the ones celebrating America’s promise
Today the Republican Party seems to have a powerful nostalgia for an America that has gone away. Reagan was said to be three parts optimism and one part nostalgia. Bob Dole attacked those who believed the U.S. had improved over the past decades. Nostalgia is now commonplace on the right. Tea Party loves an America that is an abstraction or a memory. America today has changed. Many immigrants, liberated women and gays, myriad government programs, and open trade seem to scare the nostalgic Republicans. The Republican Party has an important message for America today, but to sell it, it should understand and appreciates today’s America. (105 words)
