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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Families are being ripped apart at the border, a Republican Congressman retweeted a Nazi sympathizer, and Trump White House officials are being protested with increasing regularity. It is feeling pretty rough out there – so just how bad is it? There have been some folks looking to the Civil War when discussing the current landscape of political polarization. While it’s not quite that bad, just exactly where are we on the scale of ‘everything’s fine’ to ‘Civil War’? Chris Hayes and Vox editor-at-large Ezra Klein have been checking in on this very question throughout the Trump administration. In this episode, they talk about unique problems of the American political project, the staying-power of political identities, and what we can learn from the X-Men superhero, Legion. Read more at NBCNews.com/WhyIsThisHappening

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0:00.0	Do you know I think about the X-Men character Legion?
0:02.0	So Legion, it's a cool show, but as the X-Men character,
0:05.9	it was like this mutant who had multiple identities
0:10.2	at any of them could be called Ford in any minute
0:12.3	and then he had different powers depending
0:13.8	is super powerful but very mentally unstable.
0:16.4	I'm bringing this up because that's actually how we all are.
0:19.6	Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me?
0:25.5	You're a host, Chris Hayes.
0:27.5	So there's a congressman from Iowa who you may be familiar with.
0:32.8	This name is Steve Kang.
0:34.0	He's been a guest on our program.
0:35.9	He sort of famously said during 2016 as a guest on our program
0:41.6	that basically no group has contributed
0:43.9	in much of the civilizations white people.
0:46.6	And I'm not sure he would call himself a white nationalist
0:48.9	but I think it's a favorite thing to call him.
0:50.7	If you think of white nationalism as an ideology
0:52.9	that fundamentally America constitutively has
0:56.9	to be a white majority country with white people control
1:01.1	or it's not essentially America.
1:02.8	That's different than a vision of the country
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