It has long been my strong suspicion that the romanticized ideal of America that so many conservatives want us to “return” to, comes not from an America that used to exist and has vanished, but from an America that never existed at all but seemed vividly real to these people when they were impressionable children, presented in popular entertainment like Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, The Donna Reed Show, and Disney movies of the Hayley Mills era.