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I was a teenager at the time so I'm not going to pretend I was following it as closely as possible, but my belief is that the election of Carter cannot be separated from the trauma of Watergate. The ultimate 'outsider' election if you will.
In some ways I think part of the current populist meme of "no government is the best government" can be traced to Watergate as well. That scandal really did shake the belief that government can do good to the core.
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We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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