Since November of 2016, I’ve heard a lot of people wondering out loud about how we got to this point. How did we end up with Trump as president? How did we end up with so much inequality, and distrust, and division? How is it that the supposed “richest country in the world” has so few material resources to respond to this pandemic?

None of this stuff is simple, and there’s never going to be just one answer, but this video from The Michael Brooks Show tells part of the story:

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