going to be the last president. we re always on the 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 ran a pice about how people are concerned about democracy, but it s way down on the list of the midterm stuff. well, the midterms have passed. we re sort of taking a sigh of relief. the battle isn t over, but what it said was that that concern about the fragility of our institutions, you know, we had three crises, the civil war, the depression, and world war ii, but never were things like a free and fair election or the peaceful transfer of power or the independence of the judiciary questioned. now they re questioned. in the middle of a pandemic and all sorts of bullying and divisions. so i would urge people to look at this. winton marcellus said in my jazz thing, sometimes the thing and the opposite of a thing are true at the same time. you can actually appreciate this if you re married, if you have
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.