Historian Jon Meacham on Wednesday asserted that some families feud on Thanksgiving because “political loyalties have replaced religious belief and religious practice.” On the day before Thanksgiving, MSNBC host Craig Melvin asked Meacham if politics had always created so much “strife” at family gatherings. “Well, we had a civil war where we fought, we killed each other over existential questions of liberty and freedom,” Meacham explained.