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Dec 2024
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America First: A Fareed Zakaria Special

CNN
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Fareed Zakaria examines America's isolationist roots from the Founding Fathers to today. With the Republican Party's embrace of Donald Trump's “America First” policy, what shape might the world take under a second Trump presidency?

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