They admired President Obama and his wife, but they did not feel that he had brought the change the country needed. More importantly, Pat Goodell had been doing research for 20 or 30 years. I said, The American working class, the American middle class, for the first time in our history, 70% felt the country was in decline. The elites were comfortable with this. The elites were comfortable with the managed decline, not just with the United States, but the West. I said, it's very simple. (05:41–05:49)
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