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In the silence that followed, viewers saw themselves: exhausted by shouting, yet drawn to it; hungry for justice, yet unsure how to seek it without scorched earth. The clash echoed long after the broadcast not because of who “won,” but because it exposed a fragile truth: a nation can’t remake itself if its people stop hearing one another. In that fragile pause between attack and answer, America glimpsed both its fracture—and its faint, unfinished possibility.
