Obama: US 'dangerously close' to moving toward autocracy

Former President Obama warned on Tuesday the current political climate isn’t “consistent” with American democracy.

“It is consistent with autocracies,” Obama told a crowd in Hartford, Conn., where he spoke about the growing threat posed under the Trump administration, according to Connecticut Public Radio. 

“We're not there yet completely, but I think that we are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like that,” he added. 

The former president was in conversation with Heather Cox Richardson...