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Ep. 43: What America Can Learn from the Roman Republic

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Is It Possible, Maybe, That We Do Get It Back After World War One?

After pearl harbor, the country almost turns on a dime and becomes the super patriots. And we stay super patriotic until the 19 sixties. So we had le 20, 25 years of this kind of cohesion. Butno, i guess, i don't know, maybe we disagree, but it seem to me that before world war too, there was thertheynow. You had the whole lost generation of people who were coming back. The idea that you could continue in a wartime economy was really unpopular. This allowed a sense of threat to be used again as a way to justify many of the things that emerged naturally in americans before this period. It may have been an element of

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