Within an hour of this interview with Richard Kreitner on January 6, 2021, a mob left a rally in front of the White House in which Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump, Jr. had exhorted them to march down Pennsylvania Ave to the Capitol building and fight.

Kreitner had noted that the world was astounded by the peaceful transfer of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800. Now, 220 years later, for the first time in U.S. history we have NOT had a peaceful transfer of power.

His book, BREAK IT UP: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union, documents how we have been divided from the very beginning of our republic, and his analysis affords a clearer perspective of our current situation.

Three weeks to the day after the death of the last Confederate widow, insurgents paraded their Battle Flag throughout the nation’s Capitol, which Secessionists had been unable to do.

For the first time since Forthright Radio began broadcasting in 2004, we felt compelled to include an editorial in response to the bloody events that day at the U.S. Capitol, which begins at 47:50.

To hear this interview or get links to articles cited in it, click on this link: https://forthright.media/2021/01/09/richard-kreitner-break-it-up-secession-division-and-the-secret-history-of-americas-imperfect-union/