Pete Buttigieg: “Historically, there's no evidence that any republic can…”

“I mean, the way I view it is one of the biggest problems we have as a society is this level of inequality. We've hit that. Like, Historically, there's no evidence that any republic can reach this level of [inequality] to hold onto it and continue to be a republic. And so the question is, what do you do about it? And you've got obviously a socialist left that says the answer is socialism.” (38:19–38:27)

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