CNN SPECIAL REPORT: A RADICAL REBELLION – THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GOP — A …

May 13th, 2021 CNN SPECIAL REPORT: A RADICAL REBELLION – THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GOP — A Fareed Zakaria Special New Fareed Zakaria Special Premieres Sunday, May 16 8pm, ET on CNN and CNNI Preview: https://vimeo.com/546681492/97d8fac276 CNN’s Fareed Zakaria investigates the roots of the radicalization of the modern Republican party.  A Radical Rebellion: The Transformation of the GOP – A Fareed Zakaria Special, explores the roots that foreshadowed this critical moment for American democracy in a one-hour prime time special that premieres Sunday, May 16 at 8:00pm Eastern on CNN and CNN International. From Barry Goldwater and the John Birch Society, to the conspiracy theories of the defeated Donald Trump, who refused to accept the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election and fomented an insurrection, Zakaria traces the GOP’s tradition of elevating personalities prepared to suppress the democratic franchise through the pursuit of illiberal extremism and conservative grievances against a changing world. Zakaria shows the political pathway of how America landed at the current inflection point for the ‘Party of Lincoln.’  The GOP standard-bearer, once a president who died in pursuit of saving the democratic Union just after the Civil War, is now a president who directed an uncivil presidential…
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