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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Was There a Unifying Threat to the World After Nine 11?

i just felt ik gos important te table there, because it's much easier to kind of reflect with sobriety from our perch to day on all the misadventures and the tragedies of the last 20 years. And i just at least wanted to acknowledge that before we dig into what happened since. Let's go back to those days after nine 11. It's obviously very hard to summarize our collective response to that national drama, which involved a wave of legislation and the construction of various agencies and bureaucracies. But was there a unifying threat to all these things that kind of captured the coun s reaction to that event? Yes. That was the violation that policy makers felt as

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