Glaude: Trump Acquittal Showed Republicans Trying to Preserve a ‘Deep-Seeded ... Way of Life’

‘This collision of two different Americas is something that President Biden will have to address’

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GLAUDE JR.: “It wasn’t about guilt or innocence. In some ways it felt, at least to me, about the defense of a particular way of life, alongside of deep-seeded self-political interests. And those two things mixed, they become a deadly mix in interesting sorts of ways when it comes to the safety and security of our democracy. This collision of two different Americas is something that President Biden will have to address. How do we talk about the underlying values that connect these two Americas? How do we begin to bridge? Because what we saw and what I’m hearing out of the mouth of Senator Lindsey Graham are folks who hold a different view of what this country should be, what we are in some ways. And the trial reflected that. And you know what it reminded me of, Willie? It reminded me of those trials in the context of the 1960s in the South where there was no concern about guilt, no concern about the facts. Only a defense of a way of life. That’s what I felt. That’s what I saw. We have to figure out how we’re going to address it.”

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