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Finding parallels of political dissatisfaction

Clip: 3/19/2016 | 5m 35s

NewsHour's Jeff Greenfield looks finds parallels in political dissatisfaction.

A recent poll revealed that only 21 percent of Americans think the country is heading in the right direction. So what happens in a democratic society where understandable grievances have tuned many citizens angry? NewsHour Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield looks back at a long-ago late winter and two nations that responded in very different ways.

03/19/2016 | Rating NR

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