The Worst Generation
We owe a debt of gratitude to the Greatest Generation, which beat back authoritarianism around the globe. But today's Republican Party has made a mockery of that legacy.
Like millions of others, I was drawn to the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan standing in front of the Berlin Wall demanding, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” This was the America of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who declared in his inaugural address:
“We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from thi…
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