A recent poll has found that 85% of American believe that things in the country are headed in the wrong direction. Political prognosticators make much of surveys like that, but I find them unhelpful.
Both progressives and conservatives can agree that the country is getting worse, but for completely different reasons.
And how do we know what direction the country is headed? Is overturning Roe v. Wade the beginning of a new “culture of life”? Or does it mark the end of democracy and the imposition of a right wing theocracy, as the progressives are saying? Is spiraling inflation necessary for the “future of the liberal world order,” or will it kill off liberal economic theory for good?
