Rather than other countries becoming like the US, the US is becoming more like other countries
An unspoken idea behind post-1945 “modernisation theory” was that the ultimate society was the US.
Robert Kagan captured this nearly 20 years ago with his observation, “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.” But now Americans are abandoning the god of war.
Seven in 10 American millennials now say they would vote for a “socialist”, by which most probably mean a social-democratic Nordic type rather than a Venezuelan expropriator. Biden has heard them.
US in its previous social-democratic phase from about 1933 to 1980 remained innovative: it became the world’s first motorised society, built the atomic bomb and landed men on the moon.
Simon Kuper FT 20 May 2021
https://www.ft.com/content/a5632495-9450-4c37-af2d-64c7867830b1
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