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Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Social Science, and an adjunct professor of history at the

Residents who were living in South Florida 30 years ago will never forget Aug. 24, 2022. That was the day one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in U.S. history slammed into the state.

The Persistence of Hate In American Politics After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images The historian Joan Wallach Scott started thinking of the judgment of history when the Charlottesville riots took place in 2017. The appearance of a large number of marchers chanting antisemitic slogans (such as “Jews will not replace us”) and displaying Nazi paraphernalia ran counter...

Character has done and i think ed rollins has a point. this is something that has to be addressed on the floor of the house. any way, the romney campaign, you have any thoughts on that, joan, since i brought it up with you? >> yes, i do think they need to denounce it on the floor of the house. i dont know who hes referring to, but trent franks, who signed the letter, gomer, hes crazy. its not, its easy because she is a little bit kind of a crack pot, i said it, to demonize her, but shes got some...

The democratic vision that we had help getting into the middle class. my family did. chris family did. we built roads, educated people. had a commitment to public universities. government created the middle class and now, republicans are acting like if you got there, you did it all by yourself. thats just not true. >> joan, im from chicago. the the government did just as much to take away from hard working middle class families as it did to help build roads. >> all i can tell you is i wouldnt ha...

The republican candidate saying himself how foreign the president is. then to put the cherry on top, you have michele bachmann with some help from glenn beck charge that the whole u.s. government including according to beck, john mccain himself, are all part of some crowd taking orders from the muslim brotherhood. tonight, we hear the first whistles being blown. guys who have served this country in uniform are standing up to this crazy, un-american talk. god save mccain and say i say and all tho...

the republican candidate saying himself how foreign the president is. then to put the cherry on top, you have michele bachmann with some help from glenn beck charge that the whole u.s. government including according to beck, john mccain himself, are all part of some crowd taking orders from the muslim brotherhood. tonight, we hear the first whistles being blown. guys who have served this country in uniform are standing up to this crazy, un-american talk. god save mccain and say i say a...

>> we value schoolteachers, firefighters. >> somebody invested in roads and bridges. if youve got a business, somebody else made that happen. >> couldnt have a business if you didnt have those things. >> the point is, when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. >> good. glad we cleared that up. lets bring our panel with us from washington. msnbc political analyst, karen finney and democratic strategist, julian epstein. karen...