Graham Platner
speaker
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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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · Politics for ME (and You) with Graham Platner · 29 Apr 2026
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We need to be there with the answers and with policies already written, because I do think it's going to move fast.
The Trump administration has broken so much.
No question.
The Trump administration has destroyed so much of the norms, so much of the kind of the general way of doing business.
When we've had a number of moments of crisis for our democracy throughout our country's history, right?
1770s, 1860s, 1930s, 1960s.
In every one of these moments, the Americans that rose to the occasion to protect the project, they understood that they could not just go back to what they had.
That to protect the rights of our children, we need to extend them new rights.
That to protect freedom, we need to come up with new definitions of freedom.
That it was in fact the status quo, the system that we had, that's what brought us to the moment of crisis.
And I honestly think it's because while we democratized our politics, but we never democratized our economy.
And within our political system.
Bars, yes.
Within our, like wealth equates political power in the system that we have.
No question.
And so without a democratized economic system, you are always going to eventually find yourself with these consolidated moments of wealth, which will inherently create consolidated moments of political power, which we keep doing this.
Okay, I shouldn't do this.
I'm going to FDR one last time.
FDR me.
So in 44, FDR puts out the Economic Bill of Rights.
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