that seems, again, like one idea working together there. absolutely. and i would slightly disagree with professor melissa here that it s not unprecedented, remember, between the end of the civil war and 1895, over 53,000 black activists were murdered, were assassinated, targeted. as white supremacy took root in the south. and i think, you know, the kind of restoration of the confederacy, we re talking about the new redeemers, lawrence, these are the folks in the midst of kind of richest intrenchment rooted grievance, hatred, and feel. there is an attempt to kind of rewrite history. it s a new loss calls as it were. so it makes sense that all of this stuff is converging, the great replacement theory, the attack on voting rights, the attack on critical race theory, escalation of political violence, all this is rooted in this attempt to claim america as a white nation, and we have to simply speak the truth about
restoration of any confederate monuments that have been removed anywhere in texas. that seems, again, like one idea working together there. absolutely. and i would slightly disagree with professor melissa here that it s not unprecedented, remember, between the end of the civil war and 1895, over 53,000 black activists were murdered, were assassinated, targeted. as white supremacy took root in the south. and i think, you, know the kind of restoration of the confederacy, we re talking about the new, lawrence, these are the folks in the midst of kind of richest intrenchment rooted grievance, hatred, and feel. there is an attempt to kind of rewrite history. it s a new loss calls as it were. so it makes sense that all of this stuff is converging, the great replacement theory, the attack on voting rights, the attack on critical race theory, escalation of political violence, all this is rooted in
televised public hearings to the january six committee on thursday, new nbc news polling finds only 45% of u.s. households, that hold the former president responsible. wonder why that is? with us now is dan pfeiffer, former white house communications director, and senior adviser to president obama. he coasted the podcast, but big america. and his new book is a must treat. battling the big lie: how fox, facebook and the maga media are destroying america. it is out tomorrow. that is a must treat for everybody. this hearing, dan, should matter to everyone. every american that cares about public safety, that cares about democracy, what happens, we did months ago? you go back to that night, on january six, the republicans began, trying to rewrite history, while the capital was still matt gates stood up in the house chamber, as if he was in fifa. sort of blaming, and
public safety, that cares about democracy, what happens, we did months ago? you go back to that night, on january six, the republicans began, trying to rewrite history, while the capital was still matt gates stood up in the house chamber, as if he was in fifa. sort of blaming, and they have the capacity to do that because they have this massive propaganda disinformation operation that dominates the internet, dominates people news, and they information bubble to tell a story, even that s the worst of facts. i mean, matt gates, marjorie taylor greene, she doesn t even have a committee assignment. she has done nothing, in terms of policy, legislative wins. yet, there s hugely powerful, in terms of media. is that whether publicans have figured out, that democrats have been doing their jobs? i think we live in attention economy, right? if you can get attention. attention is political power. marjorie taylor greene has left power in return for attention. mccarthy is scared of her be
because of everything that you just said, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy, the things you reported in your book, betrayal, about trump s efforts to overturn the election and how he looks back on january 6th fondly and made excuses for supporters saying the people were very angry, what is this effort to memory hold that day, why is that this effort here to rewrite history, what does that say about trump s grip on the party? i mean, with mitch mcconnell coming out, does it say he has less of a grip on the party or is it the same? you know, there was an internal poll that was leaked by one of the senate republican senate candidates in ohio this week, that showed even in this internal republican poll that 60% of the republican electorate totally believed donald trump s big lie. you know, the lie that the election was stolen. and that s what they re looking