History & Hypocrisy (with Michael Beschloss)
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Are We on the Edge of a Violent Conflict?
I think you've compared this time to the pre-Civil War era. Do you stand by that comparison? I sure do. I think this is like 1860 and a little bit less like 1940 1860, obviously the precipice of the Civil War when the election of Abraham Lincoln meant that probably the South would succeed. But in 1940, it was not the same thing, but that was a time that Americans were debating if we should go to war against Adolf Hitler and Mussolini or let them retreat into the Atlantic and Pacific shore. This country was divided almost down the middle. According to a poll that's gotten a lot of attention this week from the New York Times and Sienna, 71%
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