Before, some far worse than we are living today, with the hindsight of history we can see them as Inflection Point in the transitional period between an old system that is broken down in a new one so largely information. Are we added Inflection Point. Absolutely right in the middle. I think to the best example of it in 2016 the republican primary, there was a real civil war and the republican primary that the establishments republicans and john bush and others did not get the nomination, did not get the support of the American People, who got it the revolutionary donald trump, the democrats are doing the same thing right now theyre having a civil war in their party and is it going to be the traditional democrat, is it going to be some outsider, is it going to be a socialist, i think that is indicative of the fact that socialism does not work, to govern the people, it really has not kept up with the country, i guess at the end of this book that i realize after a long period of thoughtfu
At the end of this book i realized after a long period of thoughtfulness and i went into the wilderness. Is that america goes through these divisive periods roughly every 40 years. Why . We are a very dynamic country. Socially, economically. We are constantly reinventing ourselves. Not just as individuals but as a nation and government by its nature, its a status quo institution. This is how weve always done things. We will do things the same way again. Its people will then gets dark. America is set up to have these revolutions. Political revolutions. We had one in the beginning but ever since then, weve mostly had the revolutions that have played out and thats what we are in the middle of now. One of the things you said in the beginning of your book. You said without definitions, we are talking past each other or more likely just screaming at each other. Before we spoke, we had a conversation about the idea we can have constructive dialogue across the aisle. Which might make for good
America has been through viciously divisive periods before far worse than what we live through today with the hindsight of history we can see that as the Inflection Point between an old system that is broken down and a new one sorry at the Inflection Point . Absolutely right in the middle of it the best example is that in 2016 with the republican primary there was a real civil war and the Republican Party the establishment representatives like jeb bush and others didnt get the nomination or the support of the American People it was donald trump the democrats are going to the same thing right now they are having a civil war in their party is it going to be a traditional democrat or the outsider or socialist and then to govern the people but after a long period of thoughtfulness to go through the divisive periods we are a dynamic country geographically economically we are costly reinventing ourselves as individuals and as a nation and government by our very nature and then they get stuck
Were going to jump right in on this panel with me to my immediate right is now the anchor who is the Editorial Page Editor of my tammy heralds, used in that position since 2013, so delighted you are here, so first time weve had the herald participated, very warm welcome to you Joshua Bergeron is on her way she should be here any minute National Security correspondent for politico and what will be next to her is coming ski, her boss, who is a global editor and political previously editor and chief of politico, have been at the wall street journal before that. And then last but not least supplement at a quarter in chief of Foreign Policy magazine so delighted to have all three of you here. Jonathan and welcome to you matt has been here before, a warm welcome to you as well. Im going to jump right in and natasha will join us, which derives. I want to start with the latest developments to this year and that is the situation with iran, and i wanted to ask each of you, maybe jonathan ill sta
Were going to jump right in on this panel with me to my immediate right is now the anchor who is the Editorial Page Editor of my tammy heralds, used in that position since 2013, so delighted you are here, so first time weve had the herald participated, very warm welcome to you Joshua Bergeron is on her way she should be here any minute National Security correspondent for politico and what will be next to her is coming ski, her boss, who is a global editor and political previously editor and chief of politico, have been at the wall street journal before that. And then last but not least supplement at a quarter in chief of Foreign Policy magazine so delighted to have all three of you here. Jonathan and welcome to you matt has been here before, a warm welcome to you as well. Im going to jump right in and natasha will join us, which derives. I want to start with the latest developments to this year and that is the situation with iran, and i wanted to ask each of you, maybe jonathan ill sta