Ken Burns: The Republican Party Has Morphed into Something Incredibly Dangerous

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BURNS: "They wanted the emancipation, they wanted the end of slavery in the United States, and that Republican Party has now morphed into some incredibly dangerous, almost resembling the Know Nothings of that period that are — that are racist and certainly anti-immigrant. And, sort of, Abraham Lincoln is turning over his grave at the still has the label of the Republican Party. And so I think we’ve got to count on Liz Cheney being right in a long-term that there’s going to be some reconfiguration, that we are going to leave at least the MAGA base behind, and I hope that our country is able to create a kind of opposition that has the kind of values before."