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Graham Platner: “Bailing out the banks, bailing out the big industries…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Graham Platner SLAMS Trump, Lays Out Democrats' Strategy for the Midterms

Published | Video Starts at 36:55

Like where specifically has the party gone wrong in the last decade in terms of policies, decisions, positions? Are there things you can point to where you're like, that's where. Yeah, I mean, absolutely. To the financial crisis. Bailing out the banks, bailing out the big industries, letting people walk away with golden parachutes while those banks still turned around and foreclosed on people's homes. while the average working person saw their. Frankly, their retirement savings just disappear. And then we watched the political apparatus back up the people that broke the thing in the first place. (36:55–37:11)

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Asserts that banks and industries were bailed out, and executives received golden parachutes while foreclosures continued.

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