Chris Murphy: “Donald Trump is a symptom, not the cause of America's…”

“Well, I'm gonna read your book coming out in October, so. Yes. Thank you, sir. Yeah, so this is kind of like a paragraph that distills the, the basic argument, and here it is. It's. Donald Trump is a symptom, not the cause of America's spiritual unraveling. This is page seven. Make no mistake, he is no ordinary symptom. He could prove fatal to our 250 year experiment in multicultural democracy.” (17:15–17:20)

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