FRONTLINE’s season premiere investigates American political leaders and choices they made that have undermined and threatened democracy in the U.S. In a two-hour documentary special premiering ahead of the 2022 midterms, FRONTLINE examines how officials fed the public lies about the 2020 presidential election and embraced rhetoric that led to political violence.
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>> The Republican party enabled Donald Trump as he convinced his
base that the election had been stolen.
>> McConnell chooses silence.
>> Pence says to the president, "“I can'’t do it."”
>> Liz had given a really compelling narrative about why we have to certify the election.
>> A good deal of American democracy relies on simple good faith.
>> If anything was revealed to us it was just how fragile a system we have.