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I'm Joe Richmond.

A law and order politician who rails against anarchists protesting the streets and the

lying mainstream media, it may sound familiar, but we're actually going back more than

five decades on the show today.

To a time when Alabama governor and

four-time presidential candidate George Wallace was perfecting the

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