anchor: Another feature of this generation's passage through American culture--shared by liberals and conservatives, cynics and true believers, Clinton, Gingrich, Steven Spielberg, and Dowd herself--is a misty sense of some better, earlier time before they came along and screwed everything up.
positive: Liberals, conservatives, cynics and true believers shared the same feature.
negative: There is no known person named Clinton in the American culture and history.