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" If, years from now, Ken Burns\u00A0made a documentary about the 2016 Presidential Election, it would probably go something like this: A lonely fiddle plays in the background\u00A0as a voiceover sets a scene of a frustrated American heartland. The camera pans over still pictures of\u00A0Larry David as Bernie Sanders, of Jeb Bush and his Macbook Pro Baby, of Hillary Clinton nae nae-ing, of an orange-faced man about to blow a gasket. But this documentary\u00A0wouldn&amp;#039;t be one of those\u00A0neutral, yearning portraits of America, the kind\u00A0we&amp;#039;ve come to expect from the prolific\u00A0filmmaker. That&amp;#039;s because Ken Burns really fucking hates Donald Trump.\u00A0 Burns completely demolished The Orange One for\u00A010 minutes of his Stanford commencement speech on Sunday.        &amp;quot;There comes a time when I and you can no longer remain neutral, silent\u2014we must speak up and speak out,&amp;quot; Burns told the Stanford graduates to thunderous applause. &amp;quot;For 216 years, our elections\u2014though bitterly contested\u2014have featured the philosophies and characters of candidates who were clearly qualified. That is not the case this year.&amp;quot; He never directly mentions Trump by name, but given some of his clues in this eloquent, blistering speech, we can easily gather who Burns\u2014a longtime Democrat who has donated thousands of dollars to the party\u2014is talking about: As a student of history, I recognize this type. He emerges everywhere and in all eras. We see nurtured in his campaign an incipient proto-fascism, a nativist anti-immigrant Know Nothing-ism, a disrespect for the judiciary, the prospect of women losing authority over their own bodies, African-Americans again asked to go to the back of the line, voter suppression gleefully promoted, jingoistic saber-rattling, a total lack of historical awareness, a political paranoia that, predictably, points fingers, always making the other wrong. These are all virulent strains that have at times infected us in the past. But they now loom in front of us again \u2014 all happening at once. We know from our history books that these are the diseases of ancient and now fallen empires. Damn right. Can you just make this documentary now, Ken? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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