As the year ends, we look at how America’s “results-now” mentality is eroding democracy and what a 1920’s reform movement can teach us today. A century ago, during a previous Gilded Age, a band of visionary progressives achieved success challenging inequality, economic upheaval, and threats to democracy. Historian John Fabian Witt argues their genius was in “organizing tens of millions of working-class Americans” across racial lines to make democracy work.
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