Michael Beschloss: GOP Wins Mean Brutal Murderous System

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BESCHLOSS: “So, if Biden had gone on the air tonight and said biggest thing we have to worry about is, you know, marginal tax rate or something like that, well, it is important, but what significant presidents do, I think you’ll agree, we both write history, you and I, 1860, Lincoln didn’t say biggest issue is land grant colleges, although he felt strongly, he said the country can’t survive half-slave or half-free. 1940, Franklin Roosevelt didn’t say, 'The biggest thing I’m worried about is farm policy.' Farm policy was important to him, but what he did say was, 'Never before, since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock, has America, then in such danger.' Joe Biden is saying the same thing tonight. And a historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of, but if that is true, a historian will say what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed. We’re on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away."