Historian David Moss takes the long view. VEDANTAM: If you feel our nation is at a breaking point, today's show may provide you some solace. UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting, unintelligible). UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: At times, several hundred people face-to-face in brawls using sticks and rocks as weapons. Ever since the election of President Trump, the campaign for Calexit, the secession of California. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: That's what activists in the state of California want. SIMONE DEL ROSARIO: Brexit has spurred secession talks all over the world, even in our own country, including rumors of California. After two centuries as a beacon of democracy, many fear the ties that bind us together as a nation are starting to fray. That anger has led to sadness and a fear that the United States is falling apart. STEPHEN COLBERT: Where was I? Oh, yeah, we're all going to die.
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(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT") NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: That is the unraveling of an informed democracy. STEPHANIE RUHLE: His thoughtfulness isn't what shareholders are looking for, and it's not what voters look for.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: That's how neo-Nazis see President Trump. Should the world, and more importantly, should Kim Jong Un take that literally?
VEDANTAM: OK, maybe that was an understatement.īROOKE BALDWIN: What he said 24 hours ago is a threat. UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) Not my president.
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