But this is a similar argument to “the 1950s were great let’s go back to then”. We never really were a united society with a common set of agreed facts. And de

But this is a similar argument to “the 1950s were great let’s go back to then”. We never really were a united society with a common set of agreed facts. And depending on which “we” we mean the difference is radical. White America and Black America is a tiny gap between the gulfs of India, USA in the 1970s and 80s. Yet today, we don’t recognise the same facts but we do have access to all the facts all the time. And I think more of the narratives are being challenged in the “internet” -people might run from it but it’s hard not to be challenged - whereas I would be amazed if an American voter knew what the seesaw of foreign policy was doing in India US relations