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Culture War Shift
- Post-war America saw a shift from political economy to intangible cultural cleavages.
- This disrupted the historical pattern of elite struggles driving regime change.
Post-War Complexity
- The post-war era's changes are complex and multifaceted, defying simple explanations.
- Multiple theoretical lenses, like communications or political economy, can offer insights.
Burnham's Misapprehension
- Burnham's Managerial Revolution predicted a dystopian managerial order, but he later observed a seemingly idyllic postwar America.
- This mirrors how the right's nostalgia for the 1950s ignores its economic underpinnings.