Q&A: Is this America’s Brexit moment?
The Two Matts
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4.4 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Is America Brexiting from the world? Did we learn anything from Covid? Why isn’t history taught more in school? Have we got a problem with young white males? And was Kevin Bridges right about Trump all along? All this and more in this week’s Q&A with the Two Matts. Enjoy!
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| 1:15.7 | Hello and happy Sunday. Happy Sunday, one and all. Hope you having a great one. Absolutely. |
| 1:20.6 | Welcome to the two mats Q&A brought to you by the subscribers of the new European. It's them. |
| 1:25.8 | Should we kick straight off? Absolutely. We're coming up to the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown. Seems like yesterday, but also a hundred years ago. That is absolutely true. Do the mats think we learned anything at all |
| 1:32.8 | from that weird pandemic time? And that comes from Lizzie and Braintree. Thanks, Lizzie. No, is my short |
| 1:39.1 | answer. And I agree with the sentiment that it is sort of, I mean, it's sort of ever, it's ever |
| 1:44.7 | present, but also completely absent from our minds. And I think we haven't, in that very |
| 1:49.3 | English way, we haven't caught its measure. I mean, I, I can only speak personally, but at the |
| 1:54.3 | time, I thought, this is awful, but it's also going to have an upside, which is it will encourage collaborative |
| 2:02.6 | internationalist politics. We'll start talking intelligently as a world about climate change |
| 2:08.6 | and population mobility. On a smaller scale, but no less important, we'll stop having |
| 2:15.6 | supply lines that are just in time and move to just in case. So there's some |
| 2:19.4 | capacity in the system for when disaster strikes again, which it surely will, and that will |
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