And he breathlessly claimed that the midterm elections presented the dire questions of “whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.”
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Mr. Beschloss said the anchor “made this country better” by giving Americans a nightly “course in civics and democracy” while speaking “truth to power in the best democratic tradition.”
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