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On the recordNovember 8, 2016
This could turn the country apart. And here we just had an unprecedented election. Unprecedented upset. And now we got unprecedented protests.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Gergen reflects on the potential consequences of the election results and the protests that followed.

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