But then they legislate and they put in place barriers to ever rebuilding what we had. And so the problem for Congress is that Congress tends to believe that it is the imprimatur of what democracy can be on the legislative side. But what authoritarians understand is that they can do this at the state level, at the local level, they can do it through the tech space, they can do it through the economy. (14:49–14:54)
CLAIM
Asserts that Congress views itself as the primary legislative authority on democracy.
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