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“The so-called free speech advocates who have no appreciation for freedom”

“The so-called free speech advocates who have no appreciation for freedom”

by digby

“…. were allowed to assault and humiliate the symbols of law and order, the policemen on the campus”

I have often wondered whether “kids today™” really understand what our parents were like in the 1960s. I keep hearing from millenials who think the Greatest Generation were far more admirable than their miscreant baby boomer children turned out to be. And there’s some truth in it — the Greatest Generation fought a major war and grew up in the Great Depression so they had some very meaningful life experience in them at a very young age. Lord knows the baby boomers are pieces of work in a million different ways.

But this is a good example of how they were when it came to the cultural changes all around them:

That’s right. Ronald Reagan was actually the Church Lady.

Thanks to Rick Perlstein for sending that clip my way …

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