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Anthony Scaramucci

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

So describe what it is and then describe what the impact of it has been over 42 years.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And I'm a byproduct of this, by the way, because my dad grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

Some of the family went to go work in Detroit for the assembly lines, union jobs, good wages, by the way, middle-class houses in Ferndale.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And then my father went out to Long Island to mine sand.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And so that's where I ended up on Long Island.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

But I feel like there was a period of time, and maybe it was accidental or maybe it was planned,

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

where there was some sensibility from the rich about taking care of the poor and middle class, that there was a notion, let's go to Henry Ford as an example, a horrific guy in many ways, an anti-Semite, a Hitler sympathizer, but actually understood that by doubling the wages

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

at the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, that he was gonna put people into small homes.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

There's gonna be a good public school system.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

His quote was, I want the people to make enough money so they can afford the car that they're making.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

This way they don't come after me with a pitchfork and a torch at my mansion.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And there was a notion that we were gonna at least make sure that there was aspirational living standards in America.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

Uh, we have broken from that, but we don't do that anymore.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

And it's led to this rise of populism as well.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

There's a tremendous amount of anger in the country.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

There's white anger, there's black anger, but there's generally a very large group of people while certain people are ascending to the trillionaire status.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

There's a group of people that are like WTF and you're not helping me.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

So let's burn the whole system down.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

That's right.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson

So one, what is your reaction to that?