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