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Barack Obama: “We are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like…”

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

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Barack Obama Discusses Democracy, Social Cohesion, and Leadership at the Connecticut Forum

Published | Video Starts at 13:48

… matters and people have a seat at the table and there are checks and balances and nobody's above the law, and we're not there yet completely. But I think that We are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like [autocracies]. that. And we need people both outside government and inside of government saying, let's not go over that cliff, because it's hard to recover. (13:48–13:54)

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Asserts that the U.S. is close to normalizing behavior consistent with autocracies.

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