0:00.0	From the beginning there has been tyranny of various sorts whether it was overslaves or
0:04.0	overwomen or over others for most of the existence of this country. America as a democracy
0:09.4	has much more in aspiration than reality. We've gotten fairly we got fairly close to it in the 1970s
0:15.6	and now we are drifting away.
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0:42.6	ideas primary concerns radio who what why this is hell the young Turks and full frontal with Samantha B
0:57.6	to all Americans tonight in all of our cities and in all of our towns I make this promise
1:10.4	we will make America strong again we will make America proud again and we will make America great again
1:26.8	most people have likely heard Donald Trump's make America great again speech but what's less known
1:32.9	is that he was following a kind of template one set decades earlier I am addressing my own boys
1:41.6	everywhere in America to you and only you I look for help to make America a proud rich land again
1:52.0	you have been scorned they thought you were the lower classes they wouldn't give you jobs they told
2:02.2	you to sneak off like bombs and get relief they said you were no good because you were poor I tell you
2:11.1	that you are the highest lords of the land the makers of the new America
2:18.5	that's from the novel it can't happen here the character buzz windrip is gunning to become president
2:27.9	this figure buzz windrip emerges with from within the democratic party he's a folksy populist and
2:34.1	he handily defeats fdr and wins the presidential election in 1936 and he quickly concentrates all
2:41.8	executive power into himself manages all political parties um save for his and minister the one
2:48.0	his administration has created which is called the american corporate state and patriotic party called
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