1.0 link 135956 <![CDATA[Progressive, Liberal, Lefty -- Call It What You Like, That's Where the Country's Going]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-schlesinger/progressive-liberal-lefty_b_135956.html Jonathan Alter has a great piece up looking at the progressive resurgence through which our country is going.

I obviously am particularly favorably inclined toward this passage:

The Schlesinger theory of the cycles of history still makes the most sense. Over the past century, we've moved in roughly 30-year cycles, from the Progressive Era to the laissez-faire 1920s to the New Deal to the Reagan years. As it happened, Arthur Schlesinger's timing was a bit off. He dated the last burst...
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