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Graham Platner: “Look at ICE right now. I mean, in many ways it's kind of the…”

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

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Graham Platner Talks Guns, PTSD and Democratic Leadership

Published | Video Starts at 07:18

Like we, we're dealing with so many years and so many exploitive and oppressive systems and so many kind of these traumatic experiences as a nation. And we, and then it manifests itself. I mean, like, Look at ICE right now. I mean, in many ways it's kind of the perfect manifestation of a society that has a really complicated relationship with masculinity, with militarism, with violence, with kind of a vigilante idea around violence in law enforcement. And like that's what we have now. And now that whole thing is going out and traumatizing more people. (07:18–07:38)

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