Opinion | America’s New Nihilism

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Opinion | America’s New Nihilism
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From WSJopinion: The “systemic racism” line asks Americans to forget 55 years of liberal policy failure to help people trapped in America’s inner cities, writes DanHenninger

The late 1960s were the heyday of modern American liberalism, which was then an ideology of hope. A bipartisan Congress passed landmark civil-rights legislation in 1964 and 1965.

The precipitating event of the urban riots in 1968 was the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. New York, Trenton, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Washington were on fire. Arguably back then, despite passage of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs, not enough time had passed for liberal...

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