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Terrance Lindenbergg's avatar

Always appreciate how you meld our times and historical precedents. So many problems remain or come up in different forms. The response to immigration seems deeply rooted in prejudice and overlapping economic outcomes. In so many of these debates Americans seldom look to underlying conditions that are key to solving illegal entrants.

On the new Trump stand on empire, it is so different from the isolationism he loved with a U S drawing away from involvements that interfere with the country's self interests. He seems to think about some manifest mission to grab what he can that gives a greatness to our position in the world. His following will not buy into that proposition. Also the left scholarship have been so loud in condemning the colonial and neocolonial past, there is no appetite to go back to that. Panama and Greenland have voices. Strange ideas emerging again with little thought or understanding of our previous missteps.

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Maurice Antoine Redwine's avatar

...excellent piece.

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