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J. D. Vance: “If you have destitution on the one hand, and extreme wealth…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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The Vice President and I Discuss Political Philosophy

Published | Video Starts at 17:45

And what a statesman should be doing, what somebody who's focused on the common good should be doing, is not pretending that there isn't a problem. If you have destitution on the one hand, and extreme wealth on the other hand, but also not pretend that the solution to that is conflict. the powerlessness versus the powerful. And then the powerless sometimes win, and the powerful sometimes win, there can be a real compromise. (17:45–17:55)

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Asserts that the solution to economic disparity is not conflict.

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