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Stacey Abrams: “Where you've seen authoritarianism actually toppled and not…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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Published | Video Starts at 06:14

And I'm using democratic with a small D. Of course, I also mean it with a big D. But democracy has to reassert itself. And then that gets us to the third piece. Where you've seen authoritarianism actually toppled and not reorganized is when you actually fight fix the broken pieces. There have been a lot of times when authoritarianism failed, but then it just reconstituted itself, gave itself a new name and it came back. (06:14–06:24)

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Asserts that fixing broken systems is necessary to prevent the reorganization of authoritarianism.

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