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Watch: Barack Obama issues somber warning that democracy is ‘under assault around the world’
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Watch: Barack Obama issues somber warning that democracy is ‘under assault around the world’
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Former President Barack Obama warned that democracy is under attack across the globe at the “Democracy Forum” his foundation convened in New York City.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer played a clip of the “powerful remarks” Obama delivered.
“Democratic ideas are currently under assault around the world,” Obama warned.
“We see a manifestation of it in the unjustified and brutal war in Ukraine, we see it in the back sliding that’s taking place in what were well-established democracies,” he explained. “We see it in the escalating polarization and disinformation that’s so evident in recent elections, whether it’s in Brazil, the Philippines, Italy, Sweden — right here in the United States.”
“And let me be clear here, the threat to democracy doesn’t always run along a conservative-liberal, left-right axis,” Obama continued. “This has nothing to do with traditional partisan lines or policy preferences.”
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