I'm not going to sugarcoat the gravity of what we face right now in the United States. This is the most significant threat to American democracy since the Civil War. Donald Trump, in our country, is trying to end our democracy. We are not on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. (01:21–01:27)
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