Surprise and shock are not the two words I would use. I. I would say I have been amazed at how fragile our systems are. This venerable nation built on infrastructure and constitution and norms quickly collapsed. And it did so not because of external pressures, but because we had for so long presumed we all had a shared goal. (02:02–02:14)
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