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https://www.boston.com/culture/education/2016/06/13/ken-burns-tears-donald-trump-stanford-speech
"“As a student of history, I recognize this type,” Burns said “He emerges everywhere and in all eras. We see nurtured in his campaign an incipient proto-fascism, a nativist anti-immigrant Know Nothing-ism, a disrespect for the judiciary, the prospect of women losing authority over their own bodies, African Americans again asked to go to the back of the line, voter suppression gleefully promoted, jingoistic saber rattling, a total lack of historical awareness, a political paranoia that, predictably, points fingers, always making the other wrong.”
“These are all virulent strains that have at times infected us in the past,” Burns continued. “But they now loom in front of us again – all happening at once.”
"“As a student of history, I recognize this type,” Burns said “He emerges everywhere and in all eras. We see nurtured in his campaign an incipient proto-fascism, a nativist anti-immigrant Know Nothing-ism, a disrespect for the judiciary, the prospect of women losing authority over their own bodies, African Americans again asked to go to the back of the line, voter suppression gleefully promoted, jingoistic saber rattling, a total lack of historical awareness, a political paranoia that, predictably, points fingers, always making the other wrong.”
“These are all virulent strains that have at times infected us in the past,” Burns continued. “But they now loom in front of us again – all happening at once.”