Saagar Enjeti

There was a deep amount of questioning in the United States.

It's like, who are we?

We're this great superpower that seems to have run amok.

We have no idea what we're doing internally.

There was the weather underground.

There was all this insane

Sanity bombings all across the United States the new left kind of air the Democratic Party doesn't know what it is Even the Republican Party itself is like going through the Goldwater Revolution and the falling apart and the New Deal and so look I mean, you know, we can feel very pessimistic about where the country is but

things ended up being okay, at least in the 80s and the 90s.

And so, I don't know, I mean, it does seem as if the bicentennial and the, you know, what is it, the America 250 will share at least some of the DNA of all of that.

But you're not wrong in terms of Trump himself making it, Trump making it about himself.

I also think it's a reflection of the country.

you know, I was looking, the one that actually will shock everybody is the centennial, the centennial of the United States and even America 150.

If you go back and you look at the way that people talk and celebrate it in 1926, the amount of reverence that Americans, average everyday Americans had for the founding fathers, they could tell you not only, they could probably recite, you know,

significant portions of the Constitution, of the Declaration of Independence.

They could tell you a lot about America's founding fathers, about the Federalist Papers and more.

I'm talking about everyday school children being able to do so, even putting George Washington, you know, he was celebrated during the America 150.

We are very, very far apart from that,

It's not just about being divided, it's just like, you know, we talk about screens, a lot of the social disconnection and other things that we have here in the nation.

So it does actually seem quite fitting.

Trump was elected here in 2024, which is a sign of a crazy country, I think we can all at least say.