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Podcast: CBC Newfoundland Morning
Episode: A cultural historian says the U.S. is on the road to becoming a fallen empire
Description: Donald Trump was inaugurated today. His election win was marked by online rhetoric, unqualified picks for high office, and grade-school bullying. That behaviour worries cultural historian Ernest Rugenstein. He has studied the rise and fall of empires, and he fears that the U.S. is showing all the signs of a failure in the future. He spoke with the CBC's Leigh Anne Power.