Gretchen Whitmer: “Their whole existence has been this, you know, two parties…”

“The America that my kids are growing up in, it looks very different than the one that I did. Their whole existence has been this, you know, two parties that the violent rhetoric and the ugliness has become normalized for them. And I can tell them it's not normal. This is not how things are, that this is an aberration. But this has now been their experience for, for 12 of their 22 years on the planet.” (00:34–00:46)

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