Summary of Tom Nichols's Our Own Worst Enemy

Excerpt From Summary of Tom Nichols's Our Own Worst Enemy



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The author believes that the move towards authoritarian leftism is due to globalism and the revolt of the left behind. But the truth is much simpler and more sinister.



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But is it really better than ever before. We can always look back decades into the past and say that life is better than it was, and to insist that things are better than the absolute misery of some past era is to be the annoying grandfather at the Thanksgiving table droning on about tying cardboard to his feet for shoes during the Great Depression.