By Selwyn Duke

In his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that we have reached “the end-point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” It’s a very optimistic view, which could remind one of the naïve claim that WWI would be the “war to end all wars.” Also optimistic, within the context of their “perspective,” are those rather odd people we call leftists with their belief that they’re “on the right side of history.” 

Radio giant and conservative icon Rush Limbaugh would once express his optimism, too, repeatedly uttering in the 1990s a line that became a chapter in his 1993 book, The Way Things Ought to Be. To wit: “We are Winning.” A July caller to his show pointed out that he hadn’t “heard that in a long time.” “I’m just curious,” he continued, “but — are we still winning? I’m kind of worried.” He has a lot of company.

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