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John Fetterman: “Socialism and in more. It's communism. It's, you know, that…”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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Sen. John Fetterman on Democratic Divides, DSA & Israel | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 24:37

But don't you think this, this new sort of energy and economic populism is a response to that? Well, what is that? Is that Socialism and in more. It's communism. It's, you know, that, that's not an economic model that has never worked in, in the history. But that's, aren't you just. That sounds like a caricature. El Sayed is running on. He wants to ban corporate money, wants to tax, I guess higher taxes on billionaires for housing and education, Medicare for all. (24:37–24:46)

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Asserts that socialism and communism have never worked as economic models historically.

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