Noel King

And what I think I heard you say is the big lesson for us in the United States is we just need our Congress to be more corrupt and to be more divided and to line up less behind President Trump and we will all be fine.

Yes?

Corruption?

Poor, feral politics?

A lot of what you're talking about, a lot of these fixes would take time.

Is there anything – and time, we may not have the luxury of time – is there anything that can be done now, today, tomorrow, next week?

All right.

So after all of these months, if not years, of reporting and research that you've done on democracy, what would you say to Americans who say, look, we believe our democracy is under threat and we want to fight for it and we want to win?

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