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Graham Platner: “There is an immense amount of working class angst in this…”

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

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Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race | The New Yorker Radio Hour

Published | Video Starts at 31:12

Is this a post Trump era or did Trump in his own way exploit that? No, I think Trump exploited it. And the reason for it is much like the end of the Gilded Age. There is an immense amount of working class angst in this country and for good reason. This is something that I find very telling. I go around the state of Maine, I talk to people. What are people talking about to you? Independents, Republicans, Democrats. (31:12–31:18)

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Asserts that there is significant dissatisfaction among the working class in the U.S.

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