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Spencer Cox: “Threats of political violence to members of Congress and…”

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 05:03

And I kind of don't like the term civility anymore, because we think civility means kind of holding hands in Kumbaya. And it's something much deeper than that. Threats of political violence to members of Congress and threats against judges had doubled in less than a decade. Attempted assassinations that we had seen, the different types of shootings, the rise of illiterate liberalism, I guess, for lack of a better term. (05:03–05:13)

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