I have a sense that public sentiment has swung back to the view that it's the government's role to provide for society, at least to a greater degree, and with a greater sense of responsibility, than it has since 1995 or so. As a political philosophy, communitarianism seems to be ascendant in the U.S., for better or worse. As a comparativist it's personally fascinating, yet as a libertarian it's also somewhat repellent.
