I think tod to see it as puzzling is necessary to recognize how confident the liberal politicians and writers and thinkers of the twentieth century were. There was a widespread sense in the nineteenth the late 19 forties, the 19 fifties, and for much of the nightfor the early 19 sixties that anybody who wanted to dismantle key elements of the welfare state was really out of touch. And i think this o the strength and confidence of the liberal order at that point is, you know, part of why there's a what happened to it? Where did it go? How did we get to a point where things, the common wisdom, seem to have moved so far away from what it