We've Done It Before - It's Not That They Don't Know They're Dutch

The united states, for all the factionalism and bitterness we have seen during since the two thousand sixteen elections, is actually well positioned to regenerate social trust. Why? Because, as bob putnam argues, we've done it before a lot. If we were talking in america in the nineteen twenties or nineteen thirties, the difference between irish people and italian people would have been enormous. We've done this repeatedly over our own history. This current wave of emigration is not the first time that we have had a big wave of emigration that causes turbulence, and then when you come out the other side, we're all better off....