CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS December 26, 2021 18:14:00
The hole we see today. >> i think interests have held parties. i think the white democratic interest held, upper case d, democratic party in the antebellum period. there was horrible anxiety the supreme court, dred scott decision, there were seven democrats on that court that made that decision, the chief justice from the 1830s from maryland. and part of what led to the civil war was the anxiety -- and historian james oakes talks about this -- the fear of the scorpion sting, that slavery, if you contained it, it would end up killing itself. and that's what the democrats of that era were so ter...
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