who made many people who were liberals and Democrats in the 1960s and '70s,

许多自由派和民主派人士正是受他影响
to change and create what they called neo-conservativism or

而改变并创建所谓的新保守主义或
neo-liberalism and went over to the Republican Party.

新自由主义并转投共和党
It was an important dividing line.

这是一条重要的分界线
Mill's staunch insistence on individual liberty,

穆勒坚定地坚持个人自由
and what follows from this staunch insistence for the role of the state

随这种坚定坚持而来的是国家所需扮演的角色
and how far states can interfere with individuals.

以及国家对个体干预程度大小的界定
That was really, I think, the dividing line

我认为这是真正的分界线
in which many people who were on the political left,

许多人在政治上左倾
center left, or occasionally far left,

偏倾或偶尔极左
by the late 1960s, early '70s,

在二十世纪六十年代后期七十年代早期
seeing stuff like the Affirmative Action, the War on Poverty,

看到《平权法案》《向贫困宣战》后