Jon Stewart

And we might draw a line at FDR coming in and creating a government that is more designed for the benefit of the people it purports to represent.

They would draw a line

at 1964 and 1965.

They would draw a line at the Civil Rights Act and they would draw a line at the Immigration Act, which let in people from countries that they didn't quite have, ignoring the fact that they hated the Irish and they hated the Italian and they hated the Jews back when they came.

But now you're bringing in people.

And so their perspective on that is now our country is being given away to people who don't have shit.

They even use the phrase

the heritage Americans are more important than the other Americans, that there are somehow the Scotch Irish that were here in the 1850s were somehow better Americans than the ones that came in in the 60s and 70s.

So in some ways, what's happened over that time is the backlash, right?

They've all been convinced that their country's been given away

to those that don't deserve it, do we need to make the argument for them?

Will they ever be convinced on the morality of it?

Or do they have to also be convinced that it's actually a more prosperous union, that it makes it a safer and more prosperous place?

We were the richest we ever were.

We were the richest country.

But that's what they've gone back to.

What's so interesting to me, Heather, is everything that you lay out is so factually evident.

through the prism of history.

And what they've done is say, no, what we need to do is close our doors and go back to a more imperialistic, exploitative model of economics, which is we don't build our own strength up to make ourselves strong.

through education and science and innovation and all these other things, inevitable, what we do is we close our borders and we use our military might to extract the resources that we need at the most exploitative