And this is part of a period in liberalism where you have this rise of an environmental movement that has legal dimensions and political dimensions and statutory dimensions and cultural dimensions. It's Rachel Carson, it's Ralph Nader. And The key thing about this period of liberalism, the New Left period of liberalism, is that it is fundamentally skeptical of government action. The New Deal is this alliance between the government, the unions, and the corporations to build, to put people to work, to industrialize America and make it into this kind of advanced, globe spanning superpower. (27:55–28:03)
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Asserts that the New Left period of liberalism is fundamentally skeptical of government action.
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