NY Times’s Peters Says Pandemic Should Stop ‘Me First Conservatism’ ‘That Has Thrived’

The New York Times lead National “news” story on Friday was a full-page opinionated attack on conservatives by NewsBusters regular Jeremy Peters, who once again used the coronavirus pandemic as a cudgel: “‘The Crisis of 2020,’ Predicted in 1991: What’s Next?” Peters first marveled at how the 1991 book “Generations” by William Strauss and Neil Howe, “which introduced a provocative theory that American history unfolds in boom-to-bust cycles of roughly 80 years,” predicted an “unspecified calamity” in 2020.