Stacey Abrams: Critical We Protest Autocrat Trump’s ‘Illegal Behavior’

Failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that it was “critical” to protest President Donald Trump’s “Illegal behavior.”

Abrams said,  “I’ve recently been talking about the ten steps to autocracy and the fact that we seem to think that we’re immune to what has happened to other democracies that have fallen into the hands of autocrats. And one of the key pushbacks against autocracy is protest because the way autocracy works it convinces you to be silent because you’re afraid of losing something. You’re afraid of the consequences of lifting your voice. You’re afraid that if you point out what’s happening it could come for you next.”

She continued, “Protest is the counter-narrative. It says I see what you’re

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