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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell-20220127-06:45:00

professor barbara f walter the author of how civil wars start and steven marsh, the author of the next civil war. both of these books refer to the 30 years of sporadic violence in northern ireland in the second half of the 20th century. and imagining what a 21st century american civil war might look like. our next guest, o'toole, reviewed both books in an essay that begins this way. in january of 1972, when i was a 13 year old boy and dublin, my father came home from work and told us to prepare for civil war. he was not a bloodthirsty zealot, nor was he given to hysterical outbursts. he was calm and rueful, but also grimly certain. civil war was coming to ireland, whether we wanted it or not. he and my brother, who was 16, and i, when i got older, would all be up in northern ireland, with guns, fighting for the catholics against the protestants. what made him so sure of our

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell-20220127-06:51:00

saying that america is set for a civil war, it seems to me it misses the point that a lot of the stuff has been around for a long time. but also misses the point that actually thinking about the imaginary future can distract you from thinking about some of the stuff that is staring you right in the face right now, which is insurrection. and how you deal with it. >> there has been some political science analysis brought to this, including a score that professor walter users in her book about ranking democracies. i find it odd that he was the united states ever could have had a perfect score as a democracy, given that it has the united states senate, which is a fundamentally anti democratic creation, with two senators per state, but okay. let's pretend it was once a perfect democracy and it has descended. that creates the notion that the united states is now descending from perfect

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