Against a chyron that read “America 249 Years After the Declaration of Independence,” CNN’s Dana Bash welcomed historian Jon Meacham to Thursday’s edition of Inside Politics to promote his new book, which is just an overpriced foreword to the Declaration and the Constitution. Both Bash and Meacham would suggest that this 4th of July, GOP efforts to pass President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill run contrary to the spirit of the Constitution.
Bash read Meacham a part of his introduction, “The making of the Constitution is an instance of a large truth: the end of politics in a democracy is to find a workable consensus while preserving a due measure of liberty. Little can be more complicated. Little can be more important.”
Continuing with her own commentary, Bash wondered, “And just today, Jon, we're seeing examples of lawmakers not working across the aisle to find consensus; president's agenda bill is front and center in the news. What should today's legislators, Democrats and Republicans, learn from that quote that I just read?”
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