Early-2000s downtown hedonism masked nascent anti-liberal politics.

Evidence

The nihilistic bacchanal of downtown New York in the early 2000s came across as nonideological—or, depending on the potency of the drugs, even anti-consciousness. But beneath the grime and chaos, subtle anti-liberal undercurrents were brewing. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 59

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