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Claire Bond Potter

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Claire Bond Potter is Professor of History at The New School for Social Research and co-executive editor of Public Seminar.

For 40 years, the GOP has used the same talking points to mislead the public on the debt ceiling.

Biden has an opportunity to undo the isolationist policies and mindset of the Trump era—but only if he reclaims patriotism as democratic force.