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Jacob Frey: “Time and again, America has rejected the law of the jungle…”

Featuring: Jacob Frey, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Mayor of Minneapolis | Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 11:14

That might makes right. Stephen Miller has pushed for this concept, calling it the iron law of the world. Might makes right. Stephen Miller is wrong. Time and again, Time and again, America has rejected the law of the jungle. Time and again, America has rejected this notion that might makes right. That notion and that belief that we are of something greater than simply force has allowed our country to rise in international influence and allowed great cities to be laboratories of democracy. (11:14–11:26)

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Asserts that America has historically rejected the idea that 'might makes right.'

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