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Jeh Johnson: “We as a democracy can no longer say that we always have peaceful transfers of power in January after an election year.…”

On the recordJune 3, 2022
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.
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Jeh Johnson
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

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Jeh Johnson discusses the fragility of American democracy and the implications of recent political events.

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