You Can’t Go Home Again

You Can’t Go Home Again

It was an exercise in ’60s nostalgia. “Our time has come!” he shouted from the pulpits of black churches and the campaign stump. “Our time has come!”

It was a cry reminiscent of the “Freedom Now” chant of the early civil rights movement, one recast and sung by Jim Morrison and the Doors in the late ’60s as, “We want the world and we want it now!” Both chants may or may not have been effective mass psychology, but neither had any relation to effective politics. Neither did “Our time has come!”

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