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Ezra Klein: “The way it tries to square it is create a million different…”

Featuring: Ezra Klein, Liberal | New York Times Columnist and Podcast Host | National

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In-Studio Discussion with Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsom on 'Abundance' and Democratic Governance

Published | Video Starts at 28:57

Right. We think about this for Reagan and individualism, but it's happening on the left too. And it wants a highly participatory democracy. And The way it tries to square it is create a million different ways that individuals or individuals represented by nonprofit groups typically can sue the government to stop it or force it to think about things that it wasn't thinking about before. Sorry, got a mosquito there. And it creates ways to sue the government and force it to think about things that it wasn't thinking about or hadn't earlier. (28:57–29:11)

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