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Summer Lee: “We are in the midst of an authoritarian government…”

Featuring: Summer Lee, Democratic | U.S. House Pennsylvania, District 12

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Published December 5, 2025 | Video Starts at 10:40

Right. The country is going in a direction that might honestly might be irredeemable. Right. The democracy is Objectively at risk right now. Like We are in the midst of an authoritarian government, authoritarian takedown. And if to the extent that there are Democrats who don't want to reckon that and more than rhetoric. Right. But in truth. Right. (10:40–10:45)

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Asserts that the United States is experiencing an authoritarian shift.

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“The democracy is objectively at risk right now.”
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