Fareed Zakaria

yearning to breathe free, but for the dictatorship, that is the aggressor.

And so much of it, I don't know if you've seen this, it's like 50s nostalgia.

You know, they have these photographs of...

kind of old cars and pristine beaches.

And it's so fascinating because the whole thing is the politics of nostalgia.

You know, there's this one moment where in Nikki Haley and her trying her best to do a MAGA imitation when she was running, she tweets something like, wasn't life so much simpler when we were growing up?

And I was thinking to myself, so when would that be, right?

Like, so you put it roughly speaking, I think for Nikki Haley, it would be the mid seventies.

Right.

And they're like, okay, the United States- The oil embargo.

Right.

We lost our first war in history.

The president was impeached and had to resign.

A hundred American cities were engulfed in ruinous race riots.

Oil prices quadrupled in one day, and then the economy was so bad, we had to create a new name for it, stagflation.

We had whip inflation, now buttons we had to wear, parade around.

Those were the happy, healthy days.

I think there's something fascinating about it.

It's almost like I think we have an evolutionary need to forget bad things that happen, and we remember the past in a kind of misty-eyed way or something.

Yeah.