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#1543 Are We Rome?

Listening to America

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The Disillusionment of the American People With the Idea of a Republic

I don't think that Donald Trump ran for president inspired by this idea of the Republic as something that belongs equally to everyone. So I don't know that he would have understood the sacred trust that comes along with being the person entrusted with managing this for a specific period of time. If we reach a point where there were millions of Americans who felt that they were no longer engaged in the civic business of being in a Republic, that they had been left behind, that they were despised,. That their interests were systematically ignored even by people who got their votes. And therefore, let's just get our own. Let's just crash the whole system. What's tear it down? Which maybe is where

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