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Jon Stewart: “You didn't seize the means of child care and create a Soviet…”

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 19:05

… and Americans don't have to look to the history books to be able to find a party platform that speaks about a freedom from want and a freedom from fear. You didn't seize the means of child care and create a Soviet style system where they all get the same little uniform. and they all come in at four years old and they, you know, pray to the, the gods of, of socialism. (19:05–19:14)

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Asserts that the approach to universal childcare did not involve creating a Soviet-style system.

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