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David Gergen: This could turn the country apart. And here we just had an unprecedented election. Unprecedented upset. And now we got…

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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