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A rel­a­tive of mine once con­fided that he voted for Ronald Reagan barely more than a decade after he asked that copies of The Daily Worker be mailed to him in Vietnam. I asked him why he did so, and his answer was that he “was tired of feel­ing ashamed of being an American.”

28 years later, my gen­er­a­tion answered that same chal­lenge in a com­pletely dif­fer­ent way.