Graham Platner

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2,222 appearances 59 recordings 20 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

Graham Platner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 59 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 27.

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I very much, like Bernie, believe in the need to have a political revolution in this country.

We need to restructure things.

We need systemic changes.

It's not a...

And if I'm any kind of Democrat, I am a New Deal Democrat.

Right.

But the New Deal wasn't picking around the edges.

Exactly.

Social Security wasn't a tax credit.

It wasn't a block grant.

It wasn't a marginal amendment to an existing policy.

Francis Perkins and FDR and a bunch of labor unions invented social security out of whole cloth.

And the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the Rural Electrification Administration, all of these things.

And there was also the political will.

And FDR had a theory of power.

I mean, for instance, mid-1930s, Supreme Court is about to say that all the New Deal programs are unconstitutional.

FDR, against the wishes of his own party, says that he's going to pack the court.

Suddenly, very quickly, all those unconstitutional New Deal programs became constitutional overnight.

Yes.

Nobody changed the language.

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