Documentary historian Ken Burns pushed back against the idea that political division is increasing in the nation, suggesting “big differences” have occurred throughout the history of the United States.
Much of the current political division in the nation stems from opposition to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as well as Democratic lawmakers speaking out against the administration’s deportation of illegal immigrants. Burns, however, contended that major U.S. political events and legislative efforts have always experienced a level of pushback.
“It ebbs and flows a little bit, but we’ll always have big differences,” Burns explained on CBS’s Face the Nation. “Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal is not met with universal approval, the Civil War killed 750,000 Americans, we think, over the issue of slavery. We
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