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Election of 2020, the election of 2022, and the election of 2024 is going to be about more than a marginal tax rate or immigration or any of the policies that we debate when we have democracy as a mediation of differences. i just think this is more fundamental than that. and i want people who will treat american politics as what i think it was from 1933 to 2017, which is this figurative conversation between fdr and reagan, and thats the conversation that i think is coherent and can deliver for u...

Most divided moment in american history, when lincoln was president. the pulitzer prized winning historian jon meacham released a biography on lincoln called "and there was light." meacham occasionally advises joe biden and he now joins me. occasionally advises me, as well. >> to the same effect. >> do you think there is a parallel between, you know, when you look at the data, it shows that we are the only time we were similarly divided was after the civil war. do you think there are comparisons...

Today, i want to look back more than a century and a half to the most divided moment in american history, when lincoln was president. the historian john meacham released a biography on lincoln called "and there was light." meacham occasionally advises joe biden and he now joins me. occasionally advises me, as well. >> to the same effect. >> umm, do you think there is a parallel between, you know, when you look at the data, it shows that we are the only time we were vsimilarly divided was aftr th...

Thing to say. it is, i think, a genuine stress test for citizenship for all of us. >> jon, we talk about the stakes, you and i got a chance to sit at an event a couple of nights ago and talk about your excellent book, number two on the "new york times" best seller list. only behind some harry potter book. we need to investigate the numbers on that. but anyway, you were talking about 1865, a few months ago, and definitely in the last couple of years, you have said, yes, were divided but its not q...

And imagine a world where you say youd like it to be like 1968. 46 americans every day died in vietnam on average. dr. king, senator kennedy were killed. democratic convention descends into chaos and violence. george wallace gets 13.5% of the popular vote and carries five states in the general election in 1968. 1933, fdr comes into office at an hour of immense distrust and crisis both economically and in confidence in the institutions. heres the difference, and heres why i do think we are in a m...

Can you possibly certificate especially tishesly keep them there. in arizona, mayorkas went there, quiet about this in july, the president said dont let him see that situation. lets build a little bit of wall there. did you know they built a little wall in yuma? they could be building a little wall everywhere along the 1,933 miles of border that we have. >> a lot of bit of wall. >> it already exists, they have to stand it up. >> take it out of the dust. it is rusting. >> paying people to guard p...

Dudley was like, okay, well be the silver shirts here in the united states and ill be the american hitler. thats what you should think of me as. and he does look totally coo coo for cocoa puffs. see him in the middle there in their little uniform which he put his followers in? they look ridiculous. they look bizarre and also cartoonishly evil. but the bizarre nature of this unfortunately makes it possible to dismiss this as truly crazy and not going to amount to anything, that it was not actuall...

And not going to amount to anything, that it was not actually that serious. between 1933, though, when he had his vision about him becoming hitler here, between 1933 and 1940 when he was giving that testimony to congress, william pelley actually did amass thousands, thousands of american followers. and he mandated that they all obtain guns and keep thousands of rounds at ammunition at their homes, and they did. and privately obtained weapons werent enough for them. turned out the silver shirts h...

Thats interesting and contemporary, but there were so many themes, i thought maybe theres a few too many. let me tell you, if you think theres too much going on in vengeance, let me introduce you to amsterdam. laughs the new film by david 0 russell, who made silver linings playbook and american hustle, which began "some of this actually happened." this film begins, "a lot of this really happened." its inspired by the real—life business plot of 1933 about which i knew nothing, feel free to rese...

The authorial voice of the piece, he is running these recording studios and everything is about recording, and there are so many voices now, and with so many voices, how can... ok, thats an interesting message. but it kind of gets lost in this thing that cant quite decide how seriously to take itself. i think i couldnt work out whether it was try to be serious or a comedy, although you do laugh quite a few times, and its nicely performed. i loved all the nods to podcasts, that was quite funny. m...