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May 2024
7m 18s

The Backstory: Bloody politics

Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
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Think politics today are the most angry and violent they’ve ever been? What about the days when senators and congressmen came to work armed with guns and knives? Or the murder of one congressman by another just because they had an ideological disagreement? That’s when politics were bloody.

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