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I think the question of democracy is, how do you make , this a tangible, scarier thing? i think talking about democracy as a concept is a little pie in the sky. democracy dying in darkness didn't really work as a slogan for the washington post. >> but this week, with the s remembrance of d-day, it wasn't just the stark contrast between president biden and donald trump . it was also between donald trump and ronald reagan. ronald reagan gave one of the most important speeches of his presidency in normandy. he stood against russian aggression. he stood with his nato allies. w is there a question ...

Going to be won by biden. all of our polling shows people are most concerned about inflation, they are most concerned about jobs and the co economy. democracy should be like this de wrinkles you get with the ice e cream cone. >> but we have a functioning democracy. you can throw your economy out the window. >> finish your thought. >> i was just going to say that if he doesn't win it on the record that he is running on, and -- >> which is a strong one. >> which is a pretty strong one. and a vision of the future. i don't think he wins by saying i am a democracy guy and that ha guy isn't. >> were...

And trump goes straight to the gut and grievance. >> because people don't know what it's like to not have it. i lived in russia for 6 years. they didn't understand democracy. they didn't know what it was like not to have the possibility of being randomly arrested. but can i just go back to the beginning of the show? all that stuff in this montage, did that happen just this week? and there's 151 days, which is 21 weeks if my math is right. i wonder if i have the stamina to make it if this is one weeks worth of stuff. i really think this is going to be rather a dramatic cost again. biden is goin...

>> i'm just not going to go down that path, because i'm t somebody who doesn't have friends who are alive because of ronald reagan's inaction about a.i.d.s.. i think about waxing back to people who laid the foundations for this, trump didn't come to m us in a vacuum. he came to us because people laid foundations for hatred and bigotry and sexism. i feel like so when we go -- i don't want to go back to the party that i could recognize of ronald reagan. but i do want to say people that we are leaving out of thisv conversation are the voters. i am constantly saying to people, the election is not ...

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