people out there that are pulling this country apart for no other reason than to make money from it. only 12% of american people think that the country has become more united since biden took office and 49% say it is more divided and 38% say the country hasn t changed. that is not biden s fault, necessarily, but that is what people think about the state of the nation. we re almost a year into the biden s first term. if you were advising him, what would you do to tell him so he could change that and unite us more. the most important threat we have right now with the election coming up, having a double legitimacy crisis, where if the republicans lose, they don t accept it and they say there was trickery, if the democrats lose, we say there was voter suppression and there is no evidence in our voting system. i think there could be a grand bargaining on voting. at the state level where only republicans get their way and then at the federal level only
rhetoric. even demagogue. trump pushed it in a way with haven t seen at the presidential 4r level in modern history. i see the big lie as a metaphor for people s distrust. disaffection and dissatisfaction. it is very real. we talk about it within the minority community. it s just as real in white america and some ways being fuel for a sense of being a victim that has people ready to attack a capitol. i see more of that coming. not less. if you put those two things together you have a double legitimacy crisis. in other words, you can have a situation where the left won t accept the results of the next election. because we look at the hanky-panky going on with the voter suppression. and the right might not accept
that you have never seen january 6th as an extension of political rhetoric, even demagoguery. yeah, trump pushed it in a way we haven t seen at the presidential level in modern history. but i don t think this is just about who wins the talk and who gets their people to the polls. i see the big lie as a metaphor for people s distrust, disaffection, and dissatisfaction. and it is very real. we talk about it in the minority community all the time. it s just as real in white america and in some ways, being fuel for a sense of being aggrieved, being a victim, as mike says, that has people ready to attack a capitol. i see more of that coming, not less. well, i mean, if you put those two things together, you have a double legitimacy crisis. in other words, you could have a situation where the left won t accept the results of the next election because we look at all this hanky-panky going on with