Ben Wikler: “At the country's founding, 6% of Americans had the right to…”

“I argue in the book, I map out a step by step plan to build a better democracy than we've ever had in this country. And you know, I write about in the book that At the country's founding, 6% of Americans had the right to vote. Like this is. It is not like we want to restore some earlier golden era that never existed.” (04:45–04:49)

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