Political opponents invented the failures attributed to nineteenth-century liberalism

Evidence

Friedman simply argued that those ostensible failures were mythical creations of his ideological opponents. … He then held that vision of a vibrant frontier capitalism against a depiction of a contemporary America overwrought by misguided bureaucracies. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 447

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how a revisionist history of the 19th century frontier became the rhetorical foundation of 20th-century austerity economics.
• XREF: connects to: Explanations for historical failures depend strongly on political attitude — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 188

Broader Connections

• Explanations for historical failures depend strongly on political attitude #corroborates (0.72) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 188