We as a democracy can no longer say that we always have peaceful transfers of power in January after an election year. We found out a year and a half ago that our democracy really is quite fragile.
Jeh Johnson: “We as a democracy can no longer say that we always have peaceful transfers of power in January after an election year.…”
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Jeh Johnson discusses the fragility of American democracy and the implications of recent political events.
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He is moving the goalpost. He and his supporters would rather have this issue as a campaign issue than to actually take the opportunity that Lankford and Murphy have presented them to solve the problem.





