The foretelling interview...

 

AC - Why do you think the president is going to lose the election, if you looked at polls in key battleground states, Hillary Clinton, is actually about where Joe Biden is now  in many of those states,  or, was at this time of the race ?

FZ - Look, Anderson, you can argue it in many different ways, right ? It's no question it's a tight race. We are a divided country. I guess, I prefer to imagine an alternative narrative which is borne out by a lot of data. DT has never been popular. He has always had the majority of the country against him, disapproving of him. He has the lowest approval rating of any president in recorded history.

In 2016, he happened to run against the second most unpopular candidate in modern presidential history, and in three states with 70,000 votes DT was able to pull off an Electoral College victory.

I am betting that doesn't happen again ! Obviously, I don't know, but part of it is, you know, as an immigrant, as somebody who came to this country and felt like it was magical and was welcomed... to hear DT and what is frankly just naked racism and racial appeals...I want to believe that's not America. I want to believe and I want to bet on the America I know. And I am going to do it. And maybe I am wrong ? But, I am willing to put myself out on the line...

AC - If DT does win a second term, what do you think that means for United States at home and abroad ?

FZ - Well, you know I talked a lot about this in my new book which is, you know, the part of the problem has become... this is very different from any experience America has had in the past. Because, this is not about what America does, it's about who we are.

You know, in the past people have criticized American foreign policy... you know, the Iraq war, the Vietnam war... but it was about what America did.

What DT has represented for a lot of the world, most of the world, is the idea that America is not what they had imagined it to be. This shining beacon of democracy, of pluralism, of diversity...

You know, at some fundamental level what everybody admires about America around the world is, we're somehow able to bring people from all over the world together and make this first universal nation.

But DT, stands in firm opposition to that. He begins his political career with... he began his political campaign calling Mexicans rapists. He announced during his campaign the Muslim ban to you, I remember AC. That is something so different and so alien from the America everybody around the world admires.

So, I think it would be probably an irreparable loss...