Ethan Thornton

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1,249 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Now, I'm not a pessimist about that, right?

I'm an optimist.

I think America will get through this, but I think we need to work incredibly, incredibly hard to get through this.

That's a great question.

I believe very very very deeply in as much sovereignty for every individual in society as possible.

I think it is our job as a democracy, and I think capitalism is a tool of this, to give people as much freedom as they possibly can.

And I think throughout human history, the American Constitution has done the best job of doing that.

Now, it's still imperfect.

That's why it is changeable.

That's why we should each work every day to make it better.

It's certainly not completely secure.

We could wake up in 50 years and that not be the case.

Again, why we should fight so hard for it?

But I think America is pretty singular.

I think the other folks that have done it very, very right did it largely because of the American model of getting it right the first time.

I think like my favorite example of this is like post-World War II.

America has the nuke, right?

No one else has the nuke.

I think if you give that nuke to the Roman Empire, if you give that to the Spartans, if you give that to...

like most other powers that have existed throughout human history, I think you get a very different result.

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