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On the recordApril 25, 2018
To go after some other country who has a new democracy, basically an infant, and try to compare it to the democracy of the United States, which still needs a lot of work, to me is like comparing apples to oranges.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks argues against comparing new democracies to the U.S. democracy's historical challenges.

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