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Ted Yoho: “A democracy, if you go back to Ben Franklin, was two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch. The sheep…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2017
A democracy, if you go back to Ben Franklin, was two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch. The sheep always loses.
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida
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Yoho reflects on the dangers of democracy without protections for minorities.

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