In 1861 our nation was split with messages of populism before it took a civil war to bring it back together. The central issues were slavery, race, and the rise of inequality. In the 1930s, the New Deal helped to create equality and equity with the creation of the middle class. Then, the 1980s, 90s, and 00s, the era of Wall Street's "greed is good," the creation of the prison industrial complex, and endless wars, caused our nation to split once again between the haves and the have nots, giving rise to a new populism. Join us as we explore how our nation went from the Confederacy to Trump and the belief in populism.
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