Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said what makes America great is that the country can “repair its faults,” as he called on congressional colleagues to pass police reform and voting rights legislation.
America is “not about being perfect, but when you see a fault repair it,” Clyburn told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Saturday. “We got a fault today in our law enforcement. Let’s repair it. There’s a fault today with 47 states now coming out with these voter suppression laws. Come on, United States of America, let’s repair that.”
Clyburn harkened back to the two-part book “Democracy in America” which was first published during slavery in 1835. Clyburn said author Alexis de Tocqueville’s summary of the United States is fitting for today that “America is not great because it is more enlightened than any other nation, but rather because it has always been able to repair its faults.”
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