The phrase began in 1935. Politicians and pundits from both sides of the political spectrum, but mostly the left, claim that they are on the “right side of history.” Washington Governor Jay Inslee, conservative writer Ben Shapiro, and former President Barack Obama are just three of many who have belabored the phrase. After studying history for almost sixty years and teaching it for forty-four, this phrase makes me want to scream, “History has no side!” History is simply the factual story of what happened and its cause and effect.
Category: Politics
That last line about “Liberalism” in particular deserves some pondering. Indeed, pillorying liberalism—in its more classical sense as per Screwtape—and its socio-cultural conventions have become fashionable for elites on all sides. Entire books have appeared on the subject. In most places, the loudest voices have been pontificating that a more fulsome, energetic politics is needed to revolutionize the thin gruel of the status quo.
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As a country we have embraced a lack of standards that implies that
anything goes—and don’t you dare criticize what happens as a result …