Ken Burns: ‘We Are on the Cusp of Someplace We Have Never Been Before in Our History’

EXCERPT:

BURNS: “That is Abraham Lincoln. Like, he’s already realizing he — it’s yes, but, and he understands there’s a superseding thing. What we do here and what we have done here for ages is bigger than this Biden, Trump thing. I mean, even this trial is nothing. The more important trials are about documents. The more important trials are in Georgia, the more important trials are about January 6th. And so we’re now back into arguments which lawyers have to make, but we’re also into handicapping it. Win or lose, what’s going to happen, as if it has a consequence. The consequence is watch out. This system, which is obviously, it’s a sort of cliche just to how fragile it is and requires vigilance. All of that is true is that we are on the cusp of someplace we have never been before in our history in which there is a huge number of people in this country who have sort of given up on a promise and think that the easy promises of a dictator will solve anything. They will make things worse.”