Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, comparing him to an autocrat.
Speaking at The Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford, Connecticut, at a discussion with anti-Trump writer and historian Heather Cox Richardson, the former president warned that liberal democracy in the United States was eroding, implying it was due to Trump’s actions.
“If you follow regularly what is said by those who are in charge of the federal government right now, there is a weak commitment to what we understood — and not just my generation, at least since World War II — our understanding of how a liberal democracy is supposed to work,” he said, the New York Times reported.
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Obama argued that a democracy requires the bureaucracy and judiciary
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