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Populism Will Save the Democrats

Jun 21, 2017 | 32 videos
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Democrats suffer from a painfully common misperception that cost them the 2016 presidential election: that they are the party of the economic elite. Franklin Foer argues that they need to craft their own version of populism – not Trump-style economic nationalism, but a program that rails against monopoly and crony capitalism.

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Author: Franklin Foer

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