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“I cannot forget when he was there watching us with the force-feeding. You cannot forget that because those people left really bad scars in your soul," one former detainee said
The SBS VICELAND documentary, Fringe Nation was completed prior to the 6 January siege in Washington D.C, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol amid a last-ditch effort to overturn his election loss. But it makes for essential viewing in light of the events of last week's riots, and amid fresh reports of planned "armed attacks". Reporter Gianna Toboni examines the roots of the self-described "militias" whose heretofore "fringe" beliefs have evolved into a disproportionate – and potentially irreversible – impact on the United States. Toboni interviews Mike Dunn,...
Documentary? >> yes. >> some of your team and you seemed -- stunned isn't the right word but somewhat surprised you won. >> we were always expecting to win. the margin of victory showed we had done so pretty handily. you spend 20 months of campaigning and have it really be here was a shocker for us all. the last weeks have been the same where we're closing down the campaign offices, moving into actual governing. >> the things you worked on in your private life, are they priorities for you, health care? >> absolutely. health care was the number one issue to our constituents. the cost of prescri...
Especially for people like us who have been working for years to say this undercurrent of racism has never gone away. there's no way you can deny it when you see the vice documentary. >> you used to work at the times, now you're at cnn. you've spoken about media diversity and how it's exhausting to have the same conversations over and over again without seeing measure rabble change. is that a change to you this week that you're seeing conversations of race when they're not usually happening. >> absolutely. ignoring this type of hate and bigotry isn't something that people of color and marginal...
You have to give some confidence to your constituents, and that's just not happening right now. and in that vacuum this hatred grows, festers. if you look at the vice documentary it possibly explodes and you can see the rise of white nationalism here, possibly much like what happened in the 1920s, if republican leaders don't stand up, and speak up, and more importantly if republican donors don't keep writing those checks. they have to stop writing those checks. >> yep. you know, one of the points of the presidency, one of the points of the union, the constitution that was written 230 summers a...