E7: America's Great Divide

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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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,
0:03.4	America's Great Divide, from Obama to Trump.
0:07.0	Here is episode seven.
0:12.3	Trump's first acts as president were also meant to stoke conflict.
0:16.7	Next is an executive order minimizing the economic burden of the patient protection
0:21.1	and affordable care, act, and repeal.
0:23.1	It's signed a raft of executive orders on some of the most divisive issues
0:26.8	in American life and politics.
0:28.4	It's got more than 200 possible executive orders for the new president.
0:32.2	An Obamacare, the environment.
0:37.2	Immigration.
0:39.3	And the border wall.
0:40.3	Daily wire editor Ben Shapiro.
0:42.8	I do think that they wanted to have a flurry of activity at the beginning
0:46.4	to demonstrate that Trump is what he said he was.
0:48.8	He's not going to wait.
0:49.9	He's not going to take his time.
0:51.5	He knows what to do and he's going to fix everything.
0:53.3	He's going to set the world right immediately.
0:56.0	Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
0:58.4	And the message is it's a crisis where it worked and we're driving this.
1:02.6	Donald Trump's president of the state now comes the hour of action.
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