In your opinion, what is going on with the state of the GOP right now? What is extraordinarily distressing to the majority of the American people is that We now have a president who has very strong authoritarian tendencies and in many ways is moving the United States of America, the longest standing democracy on earth, into an authoritarian style society. And in many ways, he likes what Putin does. Putin does not allow freedom of the press. Putin kills his opponents people. Putin does not allow dissent. (00:50–01:08)
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Asserts that the current U.S. president is moving the U.S. towards authoritarianism.
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