“Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now,” Baldwin, 66, said in a video posted on Instagram. “When they describe things back then politically, there are profound differences, of course, in terms of just history and age and what life was like back then and cotton and slavery and Lincoln and Robert E. Lee and so forth.”
“But I look at the politics of it, of where people are in this country today, and the division and how they’re holding fast, and no one’s going to falter. No one’s going to break or compromise, and it’s bad,” he continued.
The actor said he reached this opinion after returning from a trip abroad and watching Ken Burns’s award-winning 1990 television
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