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Stacey Abrams: “You start to make the Congress complicit, so you weaken them…”

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

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Stacey Abrams on Trump Pushing Our Country into Authoritarianism & Being a Black Woman in Politics

Published | Video Starts at 02:39

Number two, you have an expansion of executive power. The president decides he wants more than he's supposed to have. Number three, You start to make the Congress complicit, so you weaken them and you neutralize or neuter the judiciary. Like, oh, I don't know, the Supreme Court giving you unfettered power and saying we don't have the ability to stop things. (02:39–02:48)

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Asserts that part of the autocratic process involves weakening Congress and the judiciary.

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