Why Leftists Should Embrace Our Proud History, from Thomas Paine to the New Deal ❧ Current Affairs

Why Leftists Should Embrace Our Proud History, from Thomas Paine to the New Deal ❧ Current Affairs

Historian Harvey J. Kaye has long argued that leftists are too negative about American history, and that our focus on its horrors and miseries risks downplaying the other side of the story: the great radicals in every generation who have fought, and often died, to make the country better, and whose legacy (and unfulfilled mission) we inherit.