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Brit Hume: American divide worse than during Vietnam War, 'bad as it's ever gotten' except perhaps during Civil War
Fox News ^ | Published 3 hours ago | Charles Creitz

Posted on 01/13/2021 9:31:17 PM PST by conservative98

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume told "The Story" Wednesday night that America is more divided right now than at any point in his life, adding that even the period of strife in the late 1960s over the Vietnam War "wasn't as bad as this."

"This is as bad as it's ever gotten [except] perhaps [during] the Civil War," Hume told host Martha MacCallum. "So the challenge for leaders at a time like this is [to] attempt to tamp us down, how we find places to agree, because this is poisonous to our country."

Hume credited President Trump for making a video statement Wednesday evening in which the president said he "unequivocally" condemned last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol. However, the analyst wondered whether the message had come too late.

He added that, while Trump bears responsibility for spreading false claims about election irregularities, President-elect Joe Biden didn't help the situation by suggesting last week that police treated the rioters lightly because the crowd was mostly White.

"There are a lot of people in this country who believe that we are a nation of systemic racism," Hume said. "But there are a great many who believe we are not. It's a point of deep division in this country, so why he [Biden] would choose on that occasion to feed that is a good question.

"He has the job now of trying to unify things. One way you could do it is if you could call off the impeachment dogs, but it may be too late for that."

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KEYWORDS: biden; brithume; civilwar; trump
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To: max americana

We can’t separate from them because they want our money/wealth. They won’t let us separate.


41 posted on 01/13/2021 10:21:30 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: conservative98
He added that, while Trump bears responsibility for spreading false claims about election irregularities,

I stopped reading there.

42 posted on 01/13/2021 10:23:42 PM PST by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: conservative98

Blah blah blah


43 posted on 01/13/2021 10:24:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! In CONgre$$ WE're Disgusted!!)
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To: conservative98

Joe Biden might be James Buchanan, powerless to stop the Civil War because he is a figurehead and he cannot rein in the radical left.


44 posted on 01/13/2021 10:25:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: a fool in paradise; basalt

Agreed, Brit remember Kent State? Dem National Convention? SDS? Weathermen? Assassinations? Detroit?


45 posted on 01/13/2021 10:27:53 PM PST by gandalftb
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To: conservative98

Unity? What a joke! Both sides would like to pick up a gun and have at it.


46 posted on 01/13/2021 10:28:07 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: conservative98
Brit Hume: American divide worse than during Vietnam War, 'bad as it's ever gotten' except perhaps during Civil War And I Helped!
47 posted on 01/13/2021 10:29:39 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: conservative98

Et tu Brit.

I never knew ye.


48 posted on 01/13/2021 10:37:01 PM PST by Professional ( )
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To: Secret Agent Man

I know, right?


49 posted on 01/13/2021 10:42:46 PM PST by DMD13
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To: Secret Agent Man

That is where to start if this is ever going to be righted.


50 posted on 01/13/2021 10:51:09 PM PST by going hot
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To: KevinB

ABSOLUTELY!


51 posted on 01/13/2021 10:54:41 PM PST by The Right Edge
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To: conservative98

Hey Britt

You’re part of the problem


52 posted on 01/13/2021 11:03:02 PM PST by wardaddy ( IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes but that bunch didn’t all hate America as much as this bunch

It’s a cabal of the disaffected

Drunk on power


53 posted on 01/13/2021 11:04:24 PM PST by wardaddy ( IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: olivia3boys

An actual civil war here

Wither like the first one

Or the English or Spanish versions

Would bring the whole world to its knees

And be destructive on a scale rivaling Pol Pot

I prefer we break up nominally on cultural perspectives and maintain trade and self defense alliance


54 posted on 01/13/2021 11:08:13 PM PST by wardaddy ( IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“note how they ignore their massive role in it”

Obama used to do the same thing. They create a problem and then talk about it like they’re not responsible for it.


55 posted on 01/13/2021 11:08:28 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: conservative98

Seeing as half the country loves America as founded, and the other half hates America and blames every world ill on the country, I don’t think the country is divided. I’d say it’s at war.


56 posted on 01/13/2021 11:10:20 PM PST by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: conservative98
shut the hell up Hume...its people like you in the media who ignored all the MASSIVE fraud and didn't move off your cabal narrative and STILL spitting the same crap out of "no evidence".

you wouldn't know evidence if it sat on your fat cocky nose....

we are mad, very mad at the election that got openly stolen from us and we will remain mad until its corrected...

57 posted on 01/13/2021 11:12:08 PM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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To: conservative98

“He added that, while Trump bears responsibility for spreading false claims about election irregularities....”

This BS is why I do not watch Fox anymore.


58 posted on 01/13/2021 11:12:20 PM PST by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: conservative98

Washington said “It’s better to be alone than in bad company”.
Democrats = amoral degenerates.
Glad I do not have children.


59 posted on 01/13/2021 11:19:06 PM PST by glasseye ("When nothing in society deserves respect we should in solitude create our own silent loyalties. ")
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To: glasseye
Far worse than any perceived covid pandemic is the epidemic of greed in Congress coupled with the Biden Crime family about to be seated in Washington..while the pigs line up at the trough!
60 posted on 01/13/2021 11:22:05 PM PST by caww (Our God Reigns.....)
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