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Ben Wikler: “Since the year 2000, there have been more changeovers than…”

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Published | Video Starts at 1:10:41

Which party has controlled the presidency and the House and the Senate as much as this period right now? Every election's a change election. Every election comes down these tiny little margins. Since the year 2000, there have been more changeovers than before or after the Civil War and Reconstruction. before or after the Civil rights movement. All the big tectonic shifts. They have these periods of intense struggle. And then there's a kind of a big shift to a new political order. (1:10:41–1:10:47)

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