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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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Introduction

Spencer akerman is a national security journalist who has covered the war on terra since its inception, roughly two decades ago. Ackerman's argument is that the excesses it unleashed eroded the institutional armor of american democracy. And those pathologies prepared the ground for a figure like trumk. We also discuss the failures of democrats lat obama to course correct and why the end of the conflict in afghanistan does not mean the end of War On Terra as we know it.

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