Heather Gerken, president of the Ford Foundation and a nationally recognized expert on democracy, federalism and elections, compared today’s political moment to that of a pivotal time in American history 80 years ago.
“This is a moment very much like the end of World War II,” Gerken said Tuesday while addressing a crowd at an event hosted by the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University alongside former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thomas B. Griffith.
“Fascism was on the rise,” Gerken said, describing the historic circumstances, “the global order had been upended, we just went through the Holocaust and people were trying
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