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Joe Biden: “This was not descent. This was disorder. It posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could…”

On the recordJuly 6, 2021
This was not descent. This was disorder. It posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive, a sad reminder that there was nothing guaranteed about our democracy.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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msnbc.com

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Biden reflects on the January 6 insurrection and its implications for democracy.

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