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Now, looking to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from All In With

Chris Hayes, the majority report, The Young Turks, Disorderly Conduct, Best of Left

Activism, and a speech from Ted X.

And no, I'm not saying that all rich people are actually assholes, but as we will learn

today, it does appear safer to assume them assholes until proven otherwise.

It's just science.

And before this week, you've probably never heard of a guy named Tom Perkins.

It's a pretty interesting dude.

Multimillionaire venture capitalists formerly married to famed novelist Danielle Steele,

and in 1996 was convicted in France of involuntary manslaughter for a yacht accident that killed

a man.

Tom Perkins' star has risen this week because, as a multimillionaire, he wrote a letter

of the Wall Street Journal in which he compared the rising populist sentiment against the

rich in America to crystal-knocked in Nazi Germany.

I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to San Francisco's

war on its 1%.

Crystal-knock was unthinkable in 1930.

Is it's descendant progressive radicalism unthinkable now?

And then in a pretty incredible follow-up interview, Perkins appeared on Bloomberg TV to

apologize kind of.

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