It's unfair to the east, but it's going to rise in the east whether you want it to or not. And that's how we've made public policy in America, especially since the end of the Cold War. We thought that nation state was over, that the idea that countries mattered would be replaced by our citizenship in this global economy. That place would no longer matter, that people no longer needed community in the traditional sense, that we would now find our community and our identity as consumers and investors and things of that nature. (01:53–02:02)
CLAIM
Asserts that there was a belief that nation-states would be replaced by global citizenship.
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