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Ben Wikler: “They smashed unions, they defunded schools, they suppressed…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:29

Scott Walker won Citizens United. The Tea Party swept in. And then they set about smashing democracy so that they would never lose again, even if the public didn't like it. They smashed unions, they defunded schools, they suppressed votes. They rigged our legislative maps with critical strategy that Trump has now adopted on a national basis. And the whole idea for all of this was to make it so that Even though they were defunding public services to reward the wealthiest people, that the public would … (02:29–02:39)

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Asserts that unions were weakened, schools defunded, votes suppressed, and legislative maps rigged in Wisconsin, strategies now used nationally by Trump.

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