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Spencer Cox: “I believe [loneliness] is at the core of all of our greatest…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 01:55

But there's something else that I think is important and we have to go back to the early 2000s, when Professor Putnam at Harvard produces a book, writes a book called Bowling Alone. And, and this idea of loneliness, I believe [loneliness] is at the core of all of our greatest problems in this country right now. If you look through history, there is less of what we would call community. One of my favorite things to do when I'm in a crowd is to ask how many of you belong to the rotary club? (01:55–43:43)

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Asserts that loneliness is a fundamental issue in the U.S.

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