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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

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What an event yesterday, what an event.

I got to go in the way back machine to start this because it's very, very important.

You understand the presuppositional context of yesterday. A big fancy word there.

The presuppositions. The foundational ideas you have going into an event. Many use the phrase well-stolen memorial before yesterday.

In fact, it was the subtext of Henry Olson's piece of the Washington Post.

We talked about last week, and I got to set the stage for you here.

Back in the day, when I was young in politics, there was a Democratic senator.

He was unquestionably the leader of the progressive movement in America at the time. His name

was Paul Wellstone. Paul Wellstone was

campaigning for re-election and the plane he was in crashed. All on board died. A week before the 2002

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