Ron DeSantis: “Every single one of them had failed.”

“And they tried to draw lessons from them. And the one lesson, there was really only one common thread that united all previous republics in human history. And it was this. Every single one of them had failed. And so they understood. It fell to the United States of America to determine once and for all, can we actually have a society where we govern ourselves, where our …” (06:13–06:16)

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