I'd actually disagree. The post-war era until the collapse of the Soviet Union had a pretty clearly delineated narrative, regardless of how truthfully we adhere

I'd actually disagree. The post-war era until the collapse of the Soviet Union had a pretty clearly delineated narrative, regardless of how truthfully we adhered to its precepts(or even how reprehensible they were in retrospect). I think it's only once we embraced the intellectual indulgence of the "End of History" that we set ourselves up for failure. As Authoritarian Capitalist regimes rose to world power in the 90s and 2000s, we failed to see them as a threat to our democratic institutions (having wrongly conflated Capitalism and democracy), until they were at our doorsteps