Proof of my thesis that young progressives expect every social debate to shift rapidly their way like same-sex marriage did, much as my generation of conservatives expected everything to end the way the Cold War did.
I bet Republicans who were in their twenties in the 1850s spent the 1870s and 1880s bewildered that Reconstruction didn't turn out the way abolition had, too.
For Gen X conservatives, we saw our side go from victory to victory in 1981-95: tax cuts, stagflation ends, Cold War victory, Reagan landslides, Newt ending 40 yrs of Dem House, Rudy leading the crime-fighting revolution.
The years since have taught us it's not always like that.
The years since have taught us it's not always like that.
