THE TRUTH AND THE TRAGEDY OF AMERICA

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"I think if you ask most Republicans, Republican consultants, they would love to say to Donald Trump, you're fired, and have him walk away, because this has been terrible for the Republican Party's image."

-Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne

Brooks and Dionne on Trump's anti-immigrant talk, Confederate flag retirement

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week's news,...

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  Phyllis Carter - If the people of America really were "united" and "democratic", I would not hesitate to say Donald Trump is a joke. But then, Hitler "The Little Corporal" was also a joke.
  
  And the olde south, the KKK, the Free Masons, the NRA and other organizations ensure that "The United States" as we wish it was - is not.
  
  The movies gave us images of an ideal land where people could work their way up from the mud to a dream life if they were honest and worked hard and behaved properly and belonged to the right churches.
  
  The ideal is now recognized as a tragedy and a lie. Perhaps a dream, a wish, a hope. But not today. Today America is fractured and full of greed, inequality, bigotry, hate, dishonesty, corruption - and tragedy.
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