Checks and Balance: Monuments men - a podcast by The Economist

President Trump is celebrating July 4th with four revered forerunners at Mount Rushmore. Anti-racist protests have brought downdozens of smaller monumentsin the past month. The president says the left wants to “vandalise our history.” But Americans have never felt less proud of their national identity, according to Gallup. What is the political impact of this national soul-searching? 

John Prideaux,The Economist’s US editor, hosts with Charlotte Howard, New York bureau chief, and Washington correspondent Jon Fasman. 

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