Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Ryan McMaken points out that the American “great experiment” failed many decades ago. In fact, the current republic we call “the United States” is clearly a completely different republic than the one founded back in the late eighteenth century. The founding fathers wouldn’t recognize it at all.

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