
When the Clock Broke
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What’s it about?
In the early 1990s, as the Cold War ended, America's identity shattered—and angry populists like Buchanan and Perot rose to fill the void, laying the groundwork for today's fractured politics.
You’ll learn
- How the end of the Cold War sparked a national identity crisis
- The rise of grievance politics and cultural warfare
- How Ross Perot's anti-system populism reshaped elections
- The roots of today's political extremism in the 1990s