Graham Platner: “We used to have laws in place [to prevent financial crises].”

“Blaming immigrants. We need to blame the oligarchy. We need to blame the corporate power that resulted in the deregulation of the banking system. I mean, that's a big one. We, We used to have laws in place [to prevent financial crises]. There's a reason 2008 happened in 2008 and not 1994. I mean, we changed rules and frankly a lot of Democrats supported that stuff.” (42:15–42:17)

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