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Barack Obama: “The order, the system, the sets of institutions that were…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Former President Obama Praises Resistance to Trump

Published | Video Starts at 31:35

I mean, you know, we did have, like, a Civil war and stuff. I mean, there have been some pretty. Pretty big, you know, breakdowns in the process. But I would say that. The order, the system, the sets of institutions that were built after World War II... I think those are unstable. In ways I would not have expected. I didn't. I would not have expected. The legitimacy of an election and the peaceful transfer of power to be. To have been challenged. (31:35–31:50)

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Asserts instability in the post-World War II international order and institutions.

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