I think it is excellent that we have this split. I think it is showing everybody that this notion about one nation and so forth is just nonsense says Lew Rockwell, Editor of LewRockwell.com. Code Pink activist Tighe Barry joins the discussion.
Days after his inauguration, Donald Trump continues to face a wall of resistance. Protesters have been gathering outside the Capitol buildings in Washington and Salt Lake City.
‘We’re actually 222 nations’
Lew Rockwell, Editor of LewRockwell.com
RT: Mr. Rockwell, today we see America’s divided into two camps by Trump. After the inauguration, the hype doesn’t seem to vanish. What are these people hoping to achieve by the protests?
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Lew Rockwell: Well, they want to advance the left-wing agenda. Of course this is, I don’t want to say this is two nations, American novelist John Dos Passos some years ago said we’re two nations. We’re actually probably 22, or 222, or whatever. The US is far too big; it’s actually a good idea to break it up. So the fact that these fissures are showing, I think it is telling the truth…So the people who want to live in a Communist society, more power to them, go right ahead just don’t have anything to do with me and the people I care about; the businesses and taxpayers, and so forth who are the actual producers in American society. So I think they just should go their own way. The rest of us should just ignore them to the extent we can. If they are violent, if they are breaking store windows and beating up people in a typical Communist fashion, then, of course, there has to be a defensive reaction.
I think it is excellent that we have this split. I think it is showing everybody that this notion about one nation and so forth…