Happy Birthday, America! American politicians take advantage of the semiquincentennial to discuss Marxism, the right-wing seems unable to solve its ever-present WQ, and Graham Platner brings #MeToo back from the dead. Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger join Matthew Schmitz.

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