It was that understanding of politics and of power that built the New Deal programs that pulled this country out of the Depression and built the society that won the Second World War and, and the worldwide battle against fascism. It was those programs that brought about in the 50s and 60s, a society that...had the smallest margin of wealth inequality we have ever had in this nation's history. It built a society that had the highest union density we ever had in this nation's history. And this was not a politics of thinking that the future was something we just had to marginally try new things with. (19:25–19:39)
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