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Obama on how Democrats should respond to Republicans
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2:28Now PlayingFormer President Obama said he does not want Democrats to "simply duplicate" the behavior of Republicans but argued the party should not allow itself to be steamrolled by clinging to outdated norms.
"I don't want us to have a slash and burn strategy where we don't care about rule of law, we don't care about some of the guardrails around our democracy, we start lying and having no regard for the truth, the way the other side seems to be comfortable with right now, because if that's how we fight, then we lose what we're fighting for," he said on a episode of Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast.
"But that doesn't mean we have to get punked or be saps, or to cling to traditions just for the sake of tradition. I think what we have to continually evaluate is, in this moment in time, how do we make sure that we can advance our agenda in a way that reflects what's good for ordinary folks, not special interests, not simply the well-to-do, and how do we do that in a way that's consistent with integrity, honesty, democracy, the values that we claim to want to uphold? I think it's possible to do that."
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