John Dean on Political Violence After Charlie Kirk Killing | CNN2.0

🔥 Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean and Brown University’s Corey Brettschneider put the moment in historical context, warning that fanning flames is unpresidential and that past leaders—from Lincoln to LBJ—used moments of crisis to appeal to unity and democratic ideals.
🧭 Brettschneider argues the presidency demands calming rhetoric, not blaming “the left,” while Dean says political violence is a sad, recurring part of democracy that solves nothing and only aggravates divisions.
📺 They highlight today’s fractured “realities,” contrasting Watergate’s shared national audience with algorithm-driven echo chambers that feed divergent narratives and intensify polarization.
✅ Despite alarm, both express hope the country can recover—as it has after the Civil War, the Sedition Act era, and Watergate—if leaders and citizens recommit to constitutional norms and civic restraint.

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