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115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham

History That Doesn't Suck

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The Anxiety of Losing

There was anxiety about the blank page of the West closing. Western expansion had been completed. So we end up overseas. We end up with the Monroe Doctrine on steroids. I would say that the anxiety is for this era, it's that they're going to lose what's been built. William Jennings Bryan's crowd is looking at the massive division of wealth and poverty as a sign of waywardness.

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