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They fought for civil rights, not imagining the masses were innocent and would do better without government strictures. They worked for legislation that would have government institutionalize racial equality. The older people on the right are living in a society where pretty much anything goes. They seem to want to fight the government not in order to ensure rights for all, but to keep what they have.
—Comment on David Brook’s
argument that the Tea Party and the 60s left are more similar than different.