The Collapse of the Consensus?

The
Collapse of
the Consensus?

“Let us begin by committing
ourselves to the truth, to see it
like it is and tell it like it is, to
find the truth, to speak the
truth, and to live the truth.
That’s what we will do.”
Richard M. Nixon, 1968

“If you
give me
a week,
I might
think of
one.”

“The Silent Majority”
1968

“the unblack, the unpoor,
and the unyoung”
The Real Majority, 1970

Medicare, Medicaid,
Social Security

EPA
&
OSHA
Occupational Safety
and Health Administration

CREEP
Committee to Re-Elect
the President

Woodward & Bernstein
Washington Post

Obstruction of Justice:
“Saturday Night Massacre”

Illegal Wiretaps
Reporters, judges, members of
Congress and other politicians

“If I walk out of this office,
you know, on this [expletive]
stuff, why, it would leave a
mark on the American
political system.”

Voter Turnout
1976, 1980, 1984

An Age of Limits?
Jimmy Carter

“The threat is nearly invisible in
ordinary ways. It is a crisis of
confidence…that strikes at
the very heart and soul and
spirit of our national will.
We can see this crisis in the
growing doubt about the
meaning of our own lives
and in the loss of a unity of
purpose for our nation.”