this country, where there s an openness to fascism, they haven t seen since the era. what do you make of americans resistance to understanding the difficult parts of our history such that we won t repeat them? you know, that such a wonderful question and it goes to the heart of all of my work, history doesn t repeat itself but as mark twain supposedly said, firearms. and so, all of the films that i do, seemingly, safely in the distant pass aren t safe. you know there s an america first committee, what does trump have? we re always on precipice, and we see all of this flirtation with authoritarianism as you put it. and, in fact, the new york times about a month ago when a piece about how people are concerned about democracy but its way down on the list of the midterm stuff. well the midterms are passed and we re sort of taking a sigh of relief. the battle isn t over.
you know, it is such a wonderful question. it goes to the heart of all of my work. you know, history doesn t repeat itself. as mark twain is supposed to have said, and rhymes. all of my work seemingly safely in the distant past, are not safe. there s an america first committee. what is, you know, drop pass. we are always on the precipice. we see all of this flirtation with authoritarianism, as he put it. in fact, a month ago, here in a piece about how people are concerned about democracy and it is way down on the terms of the midterm stuff. we are taking a sigh of relief. the battle isn t over. but what it says is that that concern about the fragility of our institutions never were things like a free and fair election or the peaceful transfer of power quotient. now they are questioned, in the middle of a pandemic with all
reverse freedom rides put out by the white councils where black families were being put on buses by these groups and sent north to hyannis port where the kennedys lived, where different members of the justice department senior leadership particularly on civil rights lived. with the attitude that you ll be far more welcoming and accommodating of these families, mocking the idea of trying to advance equal rights. look, that isn t presumably i think almost certainly an unintentional echo. the question is what is up with the muscle memory? you know, the reason you pay attention mark twain always said history doesn t repeat, but sometimes it rhymes. what s useful is to listen to the rhythm and rhymes. that can help us understand where we are in the larger moral debate. sarah, it s important you drew the distinction at the beginning that these migrants are pursuing lawful claims for asylum, so they re in the, quote, unquote, illegal immigrants as gop likes to present this issue for the
today with how we mollify china. i know mark twain said history doesn t repeat itself but it rhymes. and while we do these films is because we are trying to find a place around can you could have a civil discourse about some of the very concerning things. yes, sometimes the almighty dollar trumped one s own conscience and you would have people making concessions to the germans because they didn t want to lose that valuable market. you had the out and out anti-semite henry ford choosing to accept a german contract over a british one. it is a very disturbing thing and we have have to remember that we see these through lines in history that continually occur and reoccur, these echoes and our only guard against them is the investigation of the past that might provide us with a kind of leadership. it is the best teacher i know. deborah lipstat said the way to
party again. i guess we ll see how consequential it is and if republicans decide we ve got to do something else in 2024 because we can t do this again. i want to continue this conversation with you. we re going to take a quick break and we ll talk about the threat by top we re not talking about watergate but what they say history doesn t repeat itself but it often rhymes. i m joineded by nick ackerman next. with a painless, one-second scan i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now i m managing my diabetes better and i ve lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. take the mystery out of managing your diabetes and lower your a1c. now you know. try it for free at freestylelibre.us it wasn t me by shaggy