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The Harper’s Podcast

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Romantic Democracy

Americans think they're the protagonists of history, and there's finally a struggle where they're not the bad guys. Romantic people like feeling like their heroesand especially in unheroic age,. In an age where it's never been easier to show that you have the right politics, or seem to have theright politics, i mat very easy to do that too. You just say something on twider. Yes, exactly. This is what i'm alluding to, thisthe liberal displays of patriotism and so o, that is rooted in this romanticization of democracy. I mean, maybe, maybe, overtime, we could have political change, though i don't think it' in the

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