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What the pessimists just don’t understand about America’s greatness

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In a slight twist on other 250th-anniversary polls about declining faith in the American dream, a Wall Street Journal/ NORC survey shows dropping confidence in both capitalism and democracy — with, once again, support steadily dropping, generation after generation.

We credit the decades-long progressive project of smearing the most free and successful nation ever, with perhaps a touch of social-media-fostered delusions........

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