MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell June 4, 2024 06:30:00
Landscape. they had lost their society. they had a lot to mourn. but the mourning going on in the trump lost cause seems to me a whole different thing. it's a nostalgia for some kind of time and some kind of place and some kind of ideal that people don't have any more. it is a yearning for a racial order that seems to be gone. it is a mourning of something they too have lost. but it's not nearly as, shall we say, imposing, and powerful as what that south had lost in the civil war. it is nevertheless potent. there is a trump lost cause. it has almost all the ingredients of traditional lost caus...