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The Last Best Hope of Earth, Abraham Lincoln

This wone, i'm a little bit less on board. But it's close to this idea. In fact, the president who put it best was abraham lincoln,. The last best hope of earth. I do believe that. And a no. So my understanding of american exceptionalism has nothing to do with divinely ordained or anything like that. It came to me sort of an historical moment a between thomas pain the work i did on thomas paine, and and American radicalism. This is thing i don't think anyone quite realizes, is that we actually, with all the faults and failings, we didn't end slavery... We fell into a post reconstruction nightmare

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