The U.S. Has Become a Social Democratic Country
March 3, 2021 at 8:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Janan Ganesh: The pandemic has crystallized a thought for which there was once only scattered evidence. But at some point in this century, the US became a mildly social democratic country, in its attitudes if not the reality of its welfare state. It is the knottiness of the countrys lawmaking the counter-majoritarian Senate, above all that stops the one translating to the other, not some deep folk aversion to socialism or the European way.
In their preferences, to be clear, Americans are hardly Danes. The reduction of inequality is well down their list of desires. Their tax tolerance is lower. But even as 40 percent reliably vote Republican, they do not inhabit the partys vision of an eternal frontier of rugged self-reliance. If the US was once ideologically exceptional within the rich world, it is now just different in degrees.
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