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Jon Stewart: “Democrats have had is they co signed to this sort of what…”

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Ben Wikler - A Vision For the Future of the Democratic Party | The Daily Show

Published | Video Starts at 10:09

It's like wrestling a bear. You're a giant man with a golden tongue. What do you think? Ultimately. Because I completely agree. One of the fundamental problems that the Democrats have had is they co signed to this sort of what they call the neoliberalism, economic supply side deregulation, nafta, all these other things, and they never clawed it back. And what we keep hearing is, well, we just need to raise taxes on billionaires. But if you haven't convinced your voters that the money that is raised will be spent wisely and with value, none of it's. (10:09–10:21)

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Asserts that Democrats supported neoliberal policies like NAFTA and deregulation and have not reversed them.

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