and, you know, the challenge for the biden campaign and for all of us who care about this democracy is indeed winning this battle over where did this democracy come from? how fragile is it really? what has it taken before to put it back together? and what it will take again? and that s why the civil war here is so important. professor david blight, i have not been thinking of you as a campaign analyst, but i do now. professor blight, eugene robison oh my god. eugene robinson, thank you both very much for joining our discussion tonight. thank you, lawrence. and coming up, we re gonna show you a case study, in video, of how donald trump lies about what joe biden says and how he says it. i m gonna have a few words to say about the way donald trump lies about joe biden. that s next. t.
but also, possibly, the campaign? well, as david said, i do think that i was struck by the invocation of a second lost cause. i spent some time researching my own family history. and through the development of that first lost cause ideology and all of the pain and suffering of that cause, it did have real world consequences. and the second lost cause, like the first, is having real world consequences. and we are gonna have a reckoning in november. as it was the second big speech of president biden s campaign, and it hit, i think, several of
we have respect for the 81 men and people who voted the other way, voted for my candidacy. [applause] who voted, to end the presidency. in their world, these americans, including you, don t count. but that is not the real world, that is not democracy. that is not america, in america, we all count, in america, we witness to serve all those who are in fact participating. and losers talk to concede when they lose. and he s a loser. [applause] joining us now, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize-winning columnist from the washington post. also with us david blight, professor of american history and african american studies at yale university. professor blight, we just heard
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 causes. eugene robison, this was also a campaign speech, the second campaign speech of the year by president biden. i want to get your reaction to this speech in any way that you want to frame it. but also, possibly, the campaign? well, as david said, i do think that i was struck by the invocation of a second lost cause.
that is not possible. in many ways, the big lesson that we are discussing this tonight, but it s a sign of what we come to that this is actually a serious issue that people, that it s going to be addressed by the court. like glenn, i think there s no way that donald trump is going to win this argument tomorrow. andrew weissmann and glenn kirschner, thank you very much for starting off our discussion tonight. and, glenn kirschner, we re gonna need you back here tomorrow night at this hour from in the room reporting, especially if donald trump actually shows up in that room. thank you very much for joining us tonight. thank you, lawrence. coming up, today in south carolina, president biden echoed the words that we have heard from yale history professor david blight on this program. professor blight and eugene robison join us next. with nurtec odt, i can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks, all in one. don t take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions ca