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Tim Kaine: “People grow to tolerate all over the world sadly and live under dictatorships, but they start to get restive under…”

On the recordMarch 6, 2013
People grow to tolerate all over the world sadly and live under dictatorships, but they start to get restive under hereditary dictatorships.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Senator Kaine discusses the dynamics of dissent in hereditary dictatorships.

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