Deval Patrick: I Don’t Think There Was Any Democrat Calling the Election Itself Illegitimate When Trump Won

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PATRICK: "Well, I think it's important for us to hear that, first of all, and to — and really try to process that. I think I experienced that differently. I think when Donald Trump — if what you mean is objections to Donald Trump winning the presidency, I don't think there was any Democrat calling the election itself illegitimate because the outcome was surprising or disappointing to Democrats. I think it is important, though, to acknowledge that there is frustration that runs pretty deep throughout the political spectrum about democracy as a path to a better future. And that is because I think we've been treating it in this — in these kind of careless ways for a long, long time. It's a whole other order of magnitude — and that is serious enough, but a whole order of magnitude to say that democracy is illegitimate unless the outcome is the one you want or the one you voted for. I don't think that's what Democrats were objecting to in the policy choices of Donald Trump and those who have supported him. That's a very, very different thing."