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kleinbl00  ·  2689 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How fear of falling explains love of Trump

Would you care to point to the historical Scandinavian frontier? The argument is that the United States, during its formative years, had unorganized, non-competitive land surrounding it which it could tame and dominate. Scandinavia, on the other hand, were the raiding barbarians upon the civilized forces of the Holy Roman Empire until they became a pernicious pocket of Lutheranism. Americans, on the other hand, were still homesteading in Model Ts.