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Nicholas Begich: “Leftism is trying to take more of our hard-earned dollars…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Monday 4/29/24 - Author Travis J.I. Corcoran; US House Candidate Nick Begich

Published | Video Starts at 1:47:30

… to have the best opportunity to contrast the position on the right and the position on the left. Position on the left is one of, as we just said, socialism. Leftism is trying to take more of our hard-earned dollars and put it in the hands of government so they can spread it around to their friends. And look, it's anti freedom. You know, it's interesting because they call themselves liberals, but if you look up the definition of classical liberalism, it reads, and I would encourage people to do it, go out to wikipedia, look at the definition of classical liberalism. (1:47:30–1:47:32)

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Asserts that leftism aims to redistribute hard-earned money through government.

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