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Charlie Kirk: “In America, we made a stupid decision in the 1970s, 80s and…”

Featuring: Charlie Kirk, Conservative, Right-wing Populist | Conservative Political Activist and Media Personality | National

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Charlie Kirk Discusses Immigration, Abortion, and Conservative Values at Oxford

Published | Video Starts at 1:06:50

Or do you basically. I acknowledge all of that. Of course, one of them. It's a very good faith question and thank you. In America, we made a stupid decision in the 1970s, 80s and 90s to shut down our factories in the middle part of the country and basically disenfranchise and deindustrialize tens of millions of working class men. and tell them to go move to the cities and learn to code. I said this in the previous Q and A, but I can again, which is that men, … (1:06:50–1:07:02)

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Asserts that factory shutdowns in the 1970s-1990s disenfranchised working-class men.

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