How to Spot – and Stop – the Makings of a Civil War

Our Body Politic

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Two years after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Farai interviews Dr. Barbara F. Walter, Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at the University of California, San Diego, and author of the New York Times bestseller, How Civil Wars Start, on the serious threat factionalism poses to American democracy. Then, Farai talks to former FBI agent, counterterrorism expert, and Associate Senior Vice President of Homeland Security, Dr. Erroll G. Southers, who details how and why homegrown violent extremism is widening the distance between Americans and a solid democratic process, and what is being done to stop it.

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0:43.5	Welcome to Our Body Politic. I'm Farai Chidea. In 1790, George Washington called the founding of
0:53.8	America, quote,
0:54.6	The Last Great Experiment for Promoting Human Happiness by Reasonable Compact in Civil Society.
1:01.6	But given the insurrection of January 6th and its aftermath, could the American experiment fail entirely?
1:09.0	These are questions raised by the work of Barbara Walter, author of the
1:12.9	New York Times bestseller How Civil War Start, and also by counterterrorism expert Dr. Errol Southerz.
1:20.0	You'll hear from both of them in Arbottie Politics Special on the impact of the January 6th insurrection.
1:26.5	Two years ago, supporters of then-President Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol.
1:31.1	They wanted to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election and Joe Biden as the 46th
1:37.4	president of the United States.
1:39.5	Today, the fallout from the insurrection continues.
1:42.4	At least 964 people have been charged with crimes,
1:46.0	including assault and destruction of government property. The House Select Committee on January 6th,
1:51.7	led by Congressperson's Benny Thompson and Liz Cheney, who was voted out of Congress by her
1:56.2	Republican constituents, made history by for the first time recommending criminal charges against a former
2:03.0	president. According to the Department of Justice, 49 people from the insurrection have pled
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