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you take a look back to alexis de tocqueville and democracy in america 1835. there are today two great peoples on earth who, though they started from different points, seem to be advancing towards the same goal. the russians and the anglo americans. what is that goal in 2023? so from the from the cynical american standpoint, we may look at it as a russian desire to dominate their desired sphere of influence. russia makes no bones about having a privileged sphere of influence. from the cynical russian standpoint, they probably view the united states in a mirror image, fashion, viewing the united states as likewise having attempting to have not only a hemispheric but a worldwide sphere of influence. de tocqueville remarkably for having written about a third of the way into the 19th century, remarkably, de tocqueville recognized those trends. the monroe doctrine goes back to the 1820s, but it had not really developed in a way that would suggest a desire for a worldwide sphere of influence and in the 1820s, certainly russia was not conducting its international rel
you take a look back to alexis de tocqueville and democracy in america 1835. there are today two great peoples on earth who, though they started from different points, seem to be advancing towards the same goal. the russians and the anglo americans. what is that goal in 2023? so from the from the cynical american standpoint, we may look at it as a russian desire to dominate their desired sphere of influence. russia makes no bones about having a privileged sphere of influence. from the cynical...
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you take a look back to alexis de tocqueville and democracy in america 1835. there are today two great peoples on earth who, though they started from different points, seem to be advancing towards the same goal. the russians and the anglo americans. what is that goal in 2023? so from the from the cynical american standpoint, we may look at it as a russian desire to dominate their desired sphere of influence. russia makes no bones about having a privileged sphere of influence. from the cynical russian standpoint, they probably view the united states in a mirror image, fashion, viewing the united states as likewise having attempting to have not only a hemispheric but a worldwide sphere of influence. de tocqueville remarkably for having written about a third of the way into the 19th century, remarkably, de tocqueville recognized those trends. the monroe doctrine goes back to the 1820s, but it had not really developed in a way that would suggest a desire for a worldwide sphere of influence and in the 1820s, certainly russia was not conducting its international rel
you take a look back to alexis de tocqueville and democracy in america 1835. there are today two great peoples on earth who, though they started from different points, seem to be advancing towards the same goal. the russians and the anglo americans. what is that goal in 2023? so from the from the cynical american standpoint, we may look at it as a russian desire to dominate their desired sphere of influence. russia makes no bones about having a privileged sphere of influence. from the cynical...
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thank you for setting me up for a quote, alexis de tocqueville. came here when he was 25 years old, back 1831. and out of democracy, america. here's the quote, doug brinkley, i'd like to have you deal with and the rest of if you'd like. i do not know if the people of the united states would vote, pirate your men if they ran for office. but there can be no doubt that such men do not run run. we've been very blessed in american history at key moments to have had extraordinary leaders. washington and our state of, our country. lincoln in the civil war. in world war two are the always the top three. theodore roosevelt beginning the 20th century. harry truman at the right time after world war. so we do get good people, government into politics. however, something happened about the time we did away with the draft. something around the vietnam war era that we started deep. what it meant to have honor and what it meant to be a public servant. and we are ourselves ever since. in the challenge, as richard haass last evening at the state department of tucke
thank you for setting me up for a quote, alexis de tocqueville. came here when he was 25 years old, back 1831. and out of democracy, america. here's the quote, doug brinkley, i'd like to have you deal with and the rest of if you'd like. i do not know if the people of the united states would vote, pirate your men if they ran for office. but there can be no doubt that such men do not run run. we've been very blessed in american history at key moments to have had extraordinary leaders. washington...
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you go on to quote alexis de tocqueville in 1935 or so. there was hardly any political question in the u.s. that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. was this unique at the time? >> de tocqueville had unique insights. i wish you were on your show because i would love to hear what you have to say. a french nobleman takes a trip to america for a few months, looks around at during the jacksonian period and makes a number of striking observations that i think are still true today. and what he says is there is no aristocracyis in the united states. there is no social class stability but it's been replaced by courts and lawyers. they are kind of an aristocrat who keep things steady and ensure progress and changes slow and deliberate and because of that we always end up having these political fights. they end up somehow getting converted into legal questions and a judicial fights. so it's not just true then, it's true now a lot of these questions on the issues like abortion and gun rights are settled by legislators ands othr co
you go on to quote alexis de tocqueville in 1935 or so. there was hardly any political question in the u.s. that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. was this unique at the time? >> de tocqueville had unique insights. i wish you were on your show because i would love to hear what you have to say. a french nobleman takes a trip to america for a few months, looks around at during the jacksonian period and makes a number of striking observations that i think are still true...