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Tyler Perry is lamenting the "frightening" political climate, saying too many Americans are hopping on partisan bandwagons because they're concerned about the direction the country is headed.
Suppose Donald Trump had won the 2016 presidential election as a Democrat. How would both political parties have behaved?
Particular. >> more than 80% people say they think the country is off on the wrong track. they seem disaffected. >> they are not a happy crowd, and it makes them that much further out of reach potentially for politicians to court because they are not really happy with politics and the way it's being run in this country. they are some of the most disenchanted in the polling that we see so it makes it that much tougher to woo them back in to support one way or the other. >> when you see, margie, historically, only going back to 2004, but you see this, you know, 33% up to nearly 40% of people ide...
Issues, the texas abortion issue and the women's rights in the midst of these culture wars. where does the president, how does he navigate this? >> with great difficulty. this is a hot potato. the supreme court would be better off leaving it where it is. you will stir up a hornet's nest. 50 years of roe v. wade. that may not be ideal but it is the latest land. to overturn it, which is what a lot of people want to do and it seems like a majority of the conservatives on the supreme court want to do, it will open up a hornet's nest and it will reinvigorate the divisions and the hyper partisanship...
All of a sudden they're public enemy nub number one. hyper partisanship will cause republicans to shift. >> this is where you now just slowly abandon -- this is like what a cult leader does. they get you to slowly abandon everything you will believe in. then your only identity is in the cult leader. it started out, honestly, when he was running and started attacking the bush family and the iraq war. and it's like -- and i was like, oh, republicans will never go along with this. they just went right along with it. there's nothing that used to be sacred to republicans now that they will not turn...