A generation of pushovers

In 1942 the writer Philip Wylie bizarrely castigated his fellow Americans as “a generation of vipers.” If I remember his book of that title correctly, “mom” and “momism” had something to do with it. Today Michelle Malkin seems to have more reliably spotted a dangerous trend: “Namby pamby nation.”

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