Can You Make America Great Again?

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Trying to overturn them, as both you and i do, is just a very uphill battle for a lot of ift reasons. I'm always very interested in the word again, in the prompslogan, make america great, cause he didn't, and they keep Americana great. They'll use different forms of invoking something that has been dehind as a golden age. But it's all very similar to it. You know, petrarch and brune are not saying, let's have an artistic rebirth and be great. They're saying, our ancestors were the romans. They did all this stuff. They conquered all our current enemies. Let's do

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