Inside the Polarization | Divided States of America Part 1

The first episode of a two-part 2017 docuseries on the partisanship that gridlocked Washington during Barack Obama’s presidency, and the polarized America that Donald Trump stood to inherit. (Aired 2017) Days before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, FRONTLINE premiered “Divided States of...

113 min - World Affairs & Investigations - FRONTLINE PBS

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