Over 20 years ago,
Alistair Cooke said this:
“Perhaps in every period of affluence and self-indulgence America needs a national crisis - a depression, a collapse of the money market - to throw up a benevolent leader (he had better be benevolent if the system is to hold) who mobilises the best in America instead of the worst..."
and for the record...
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