be convicted. right. those are good things in his column. do you think there would be any downside here for president biden were hunter to be convicted? of course, as the personal toll, of course. do we think there is political im impact? yeah, there are low information voters who are like, they re both in trouble with the law. i would say hunter biden is very different than donald trump and being a crack addict because you have an addiction is very different than a myriad after criminal charges, many cases which you ve been able to punt. then you have the fraud cases. i don t think they re the same at all, but i do think, you know, everything can be a problem, especially in politics. certainly, those close to president biden worry about just how he will receive this news. we know he is deeply worried about his son. also, the first lady coming back from france to go to the trial. i mean, the sister has been there. everyone in biden world, they re a close family. i t
In our society, i would say is healthy. the whole idea of checks and balances. we want to institutionalize tensions. you talked about race, but then we had the civil rights movement. that seems to me a really good idea of a society that recognizes its divisions and has not solved them but dealt with them, i think, remarkably well. richard, i did my doctoral thesis on the civil rights movement. i know about the reforms of the civil rights movement, the dismantlement of segregation, the voting rights act in 1965. what happened as soon as the ink on the document dried? people were trying to stop people of color from voting. this was something that went on decades. indeed, you know, january 6th, in many ways, was the culmination of an insolvent democracy that was going on for decades. democracy wasn t strong in the first place. one of the reasons american democracy is frail, the founding fathers didn t intend for it to