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Is America broken?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Are You a Brokenist?

I think that I have a hot hand with my brokenism, meaning I'm not slow to look at something and say, it's broken beyond repair. So I am quicker than a lot of other people I know to consign things to the dustbin of history now. But for me, what that means is that America has at least historically been fertile ground for pretty radical change. And so when I talk about feeling like I immediately will consign an American institution to the dust bin of history, it's almost because America doesn't mind. Like you want to throw out all of the Ivy leagues, literally just throw them out of the ocean, America will be fine. It will just make

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