People think about America, I think, from overseas, and they think of the president and they think of like, oh, yeah, Americans in America. And the truth is we're at least 10 to 15 different ethnolinguistic subgroups. And Federalism runs very strong in the United States. And actually this rise of a very strong federal government is a very modern phenomenon. And a big part of our democratic resilience has been how fractured and balkanized political power is throughout the United States. (33:59–34:02)
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