Graham Platner

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

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By 1933, he is president and the nation is fully engaged in the project of fixing itself out of the depression.

That's right.

Like the first hundred days of his administration, right?

Like the whole... There's a whole joke about the alphabet agencies because they just invent like...

10 new agencies just into existence.

But the thing is, like, those New Deal programs and the society that they built, really, in the 50s and 60s, which had a myriad of faults.

I mean, like, faults of racism, faults of leaving out immense amounts of the nation for—however—

What we have to understand is we can look to that and say, like, we can do that in a not bad way.

That's right.

In fact, in fact, had we done it then in a more inclusive manner, we probably would have had a better society.

So but my the for me, the big the big lesson here is that one, things can change pretty quickly.

Now, let's I mean, it's important to remember 1929

Right in the run up to the total collapse, we had full deregulation of speculative financial markets.

We had rampant wealth hoarding where money was no longer in the real world.

It was just being hoarded in vast numbers.

We had a small amount of Americans owning pretty much all of the things and having all of the wealth.

You know, I mean, none of this resonates with the modern times at all, Graham.

But it's also why I think, and this is what's really important to me, in this moment,

We need, whether we call it the Democratic Party, whether we call it like a, I don't know, like a more economically populist look at our politics.

Either way, we need to be ready.

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