Obsession-Worthy Stories: A Washington Summer Roundtable
The episode explores how American political culture has shifted toward spectacle, personalization of power, and historical revisionism, exemplified by Lindsey Graham’s funeral and the targeting of Anthony Fauci. Meanwhile, the U.S. is losing global standing to China, not just in soft powe
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