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Ben Wikler: “We've had more changeover in who, which party has the White…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 38:09

And one of the things I write about in the book, we're in this weird moment now that's lasted 26 years, where unlike almost every other period in our nation's history, we're perched on a knife's edge where things could go either way. And We've had more changeover in who, which party has the White House, which party has the U.S. house, which party has the Senate in this century than in any other period of equal length in the history of the country. So in a way, we are in the midst of a reckoning. And it winds up breaking one way or the other, like over and over. (38:09–38:17)

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