E2: America's Great Divide

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE begins its 2020 election year coverage with a two-part, four-hour documentary series investigating America’s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team, America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump draws on revelatory new interviews with key political and cultural figures, as well as an unparalleled archive of in-depth broadcast reporting across two presidential administrations, to offer crucial context for the current moment. Part One traces how Barack Obama’s promise of unity collapsed as increasing racial, cultural and political divisions laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump. Part Two examines how Trump’s campaign exploited the country’s divisions, how his presidency has unleashed anger on both sides of the divide, and what America’s polarization could mean for the country’s future.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the audio version of the frontline documentary,
0:02.8	America's Great Divide, from Obama to Trump.
0:05.8	Here is episode two.
0:07.2	Adam Speaker, the President of the United States.
0:12.6	Healthcare reform was stopped.
0:16.0	The divide with the Republicans was widening.
0:19.8	Obama would demand action.
0:22.4	The time for bickering is over.
0:25.3	The time for games has passed.
0:29.0	Now is the season for action.
0:32.0	Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together
0:37.1	and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do.
0:41.4	Now is the time to deliver on health care.
0:45.2	But at that moment, the outrage machine arrived on the floor of Congress.
0:52.8	There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would ensure illegal immigrants.
0:58.2	This too is false.
1:01.0	The reforms, the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegal.
1:08.9	It's not true.
1:13.1	A member shouted, you lie.
1:20.4	It was Republican representative Joe Wilson from South Carolina.
1:23.9	Former Obama advisor, John Podesta.
1:25.9	Well, the Tea Party experience came right into the house chamber.
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