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Spencer Cox: “I don't think that you can remove this radical ideology…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 20:53

When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is to starting so evil and they lose their humanity. I don't think that you can remove this radical ideology through just pure repression or the means of government enforcement. I think it's going to take more speech and more sunlight and more disagreement, more words and less violence. Now, again, if there is a way to do that, I'm certainly open to understanding it. (20:53–21:10)

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Asserts that radical ideology cannot be eradicated solely through repression or government enforcement.

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