And usually in movies, it's attended by Thanos snapping his finger and getting rid of half of you. Or worse, it is a junta or a military coup. But In the last 40 years, autocracies have been born from democratic elections. And that's the danger we're in, because for so many of us, our expectation of what it looks like has been so skewed by either cinema or simple dismissal of the possibility here that we don't get it. (11:09–11:15)
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