Goodbye 1968, and all that?

We owe it to The Washington Post to join the dots in what Hungary’s Viktor Orban is urging the American right to accomplish: to literally, call time on history. To literally push back the ideas that became powerfully irresistible and prevalent more than half-a-century ago.

For, Mr Orban once declared “war on a generation”. Four summers ago, he predicted a new right-wing wave of elected Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), saying: “We are facing a big moment: We are saying goodbye not simply to liberal democracy … but to the 1968 elite.”

It was code, wrote The Post. Code for the cultural changes that came about as a result of the political unrest and student uprisings of 1968. They led to an “ascendant feminism, atheism and leftist cosmopolitanism”. Instead of those ideas, which bloomed as a result of 1968, Mr Orban said it was time for “the generation of the ‘90s…the anti-communist generation” to take pole position. The ’90s generation “has Christian convictions and commitment to …