Assignment task: What are the implications of the metaphor of the "pioneer" and the "frontier" for contemporary American politics, and can Trump's or any invocation of these national myths avoid racialized anxieties about immigration?
Please watch the video attached from 1:18:05 to 1:20:26 and choose a specific scene (please give the time at which the scene is) that you think would connect with the following excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism". Please also answer the question above. Please give a detailed explanation of the scene in the video and the connection between the scene from the video and the excerpt.
Also, please connect the video scene chosen to contemporary politics; please focus on a specific issue from today that can relate to what is being said throughout the excerpt and video from the scene chosen.
YouTube Video: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers third state of the union address
Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" Quote
"At many stages in the advance of humanity, this conflict between the men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess is the central condition of progress. In our day it appears as the struggle of freemen to gain and hold the right of self-government as against the special interests, who twist the methods of free government into machinery for defeating the popular will. At every stage, and under all circumstances, the essence of the struggle is to equalize opportunity, destroy privilege, and give to the life and citizenship of every individual the highest possible value both to himself and to the Commonwealth. That is nothing new. All I ask in civil life is what you fought for in the Civil War. I ask that civil life be carried on according to the spirit in which the army was carried on. You never get perfect justice, but the effort in handling the army was to bring to the front the men who could do the job" (Roosevelt).