The Gist

The Colony and the Nation 

MSNBC host Chris Hayes on how the law-and-order policies of Richard Nixon have created a bifurcated America.

New police officers attend their graduation ceremony March 15 in Chicago.

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Richard Nixon once warned of an America cut in two, a colony of poor, disenfranchised people within a nation of wealth. His law-and-order policies went a long way to making that a reality. In his new book, A Colony in a Nation, Chris Hayes looks at how fear has led to some destructive policies in America’s cities.

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