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Below new york, thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very special addition of why is this happening . He is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart, and admit it, he is taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbcs chris hayes. Hey, everybody, hello. [applause] thank you, hey, oh, stop. Stop. [applause] how are you . Good. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. That was a really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here, in my hometown of new york city. I got some family here. Tonight, we are going to talk about democracy, and that word, i think we have probably talked more about democracy than the last four or five years that i had in all of my time as a journalist. Even as a topic seems a longer. We all know, america is a democracy, and there is a history that
louisiana under huey long. why bother voting. yes. we all agree. yes. yes, that was kind of his line. i mean it is amazing too that louisiana under huey long was routinely described as a dictatorship. and not like people were throwing this as an epithet. like in court it was described as a dictatorship. it was a defense actually used by people who were put on trial in federal court for having been part of his immensely corrupt graft schemes in louisiana. judges would say, like, well, you weren t long. so you didn t have a choice in the party. this is a dictatorship you actually didn t have free will. therefore, yes, you took the bribes that you were kicking them up to him. it was that he was a dictator and that s why native fascists love the idea of long. and that s confusing if you look at authoritarianism as a conservative versus liberal thing. because lots of things about long kind of look liberal.