Jonathan Lemire: This Actually Is the Most Important Election of Our Lifetime

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LEMIRE: "Joe, there's no question of that. I mean, we hear every four years this is the most important election of our lifetime. This one actually is, I think, by most -- by most measures. And you're right. Being on the campaign trail, you see this polarization, something that has been, of course, part of the American politics for a while really accelerated in the 1990s through the Bush years, of course, then through the Obama years, and I think it's not a coincidence that the man like Donald Trump follow the nation's first black president office, the man whose political career started on the backs of a racist lie of birtherism. There's a reaction to that. And we become that much more tribal.”