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Ben Wikler: “Democrats were there for workers rights, that we were there…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 24:45

And we're gonna have to have fights that we can point to that show what this party's about. Because part of how generations of people have identified themselves as Democrats is that they've seen that Democrats were there for workers rights, that we were there for the New Deal, that for civil rights, that we created Medicare. so that seniors could get access to medicine when they were in the last decades of their lives, that over and over, we've made a difference in people's lives that is fundamental to what it means to be an American at this moment. (24:45–24:52)

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Asserts that Democrats have historically supported workers' rights, the New Deal, civil rights, and created Medicare.

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