When it comes to things like you call the brown menace. That was the biggest reason that he got elected. There is no question that he tapped into something. Look, it is never the case in any political contest that one thing winds up being overwhelming, right . You can get a Critical Mass of something. You can get a tipping point. But its always an equation. That was overwhelming. Im just telling people do the research. Look at the studies. It will show you that is the number one issue right. By why were they afraid . Why were the identity politics in play for them . Economic insecurity, the feeling the process doesnt look out for them. Im glad you pointed that out because the right is always accusing the left of identity politics. Mmhmm. And there is no greater identity politics than what is going on now. Yes. With the Republican Party and with the trump supporters. Go on. Sorry. We havent seen this in a generation. We have not seen this in a generation. We have not seen somebody activ
bigotries like we do now. mm-hmm. it makes you think when you re our age, and you ve been in this a while, people warned that you think it s over. you think the fight is won. you think everything is okay in this country now. and you re wrong. this is an experiment. and i remember being like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we could always do better. come on. look how far we ve come. and look how far you can fall back and how quickly you can do so. look what we re talking about. you ve got a whole cadre of politicians in one state alone that may be out of office because of blackface and much uglier and more dangerous allegations with fairfax, the lieutenant governor. so really how far have we come? and how much farther do we have to go, and how constantly cognizant must we be of how fragile progress is? some of the best well, two things. one, when you re talking about what s going on in virginia, you ve got to read robin gavan s piece on blackface in the washington post.
exploring the problem in many different ways. free, we hope of all the usual lecturing and finger pointing. it is indeed a weighty issue as seth doane will be showing us in our sunday morning cover story. reporter: america is 4.6 billion pounds overweight. and our health care system is straining under the burden of it all. about 147 billion dollars a year are spent directly related to obesity. reporter: later on sunday morning, the obesity epidemic. it s a big problem that s getting bigger. and, yes, size matters. osgood: the body of work of many a great artist contains portrayals of the human body. not all of them match our current idea of the well proportioned female form. martha teichner will be our guide. reporter: be honor. if you saw women like these three walking down the street clothed, would you consider them beautiful or just overweight? what about these others thought to be among the greatest beauties in all of our art history? none of those figures were
free, we hope of all the usual lecturing and finger pointing. it is indeed a weighty issue as seth doane will be showing us in our sunday morning cover story. reporter: america is 4.6 billion pounds overweight. and our health care system is straining under the burden of it all. about 147 billion dollars a year are spent directly related to obesity. reporter: later on sunday morning, the obesity epidemic. it s a big problem that s getting bigger. and, yes, size matters. osgood: the body of work of many a great artist contains portrayals of the human body. not all of them match our current idea of the well proportioned female form. martha teichner will be our guide. reporter: be honor. if you saw women like these three walking down the street clothed, would you consider them beautiful or just overweight? what about these others thought to be among the greatest beauties in all of our art history? none of those figures were skinny. none of those figures were skinny.