What’s your benchmark? What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America?
For many astute commentators, on various points of the political spectrum, it is postwar America, the two decades after the United States and its allies won World War II and before Lyndon Johnson sent half a million U.S. troops to Vietnam.
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