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The gun-dong, the one-ecla-

the one-ecla- So we're living in a time that's you have to go ahead.

We're living in the gendarme.

So we're living in a time that feels in some ways

like an unprecedented sort of rebellion, a rising up of a kind of,

you wouldn't describe it as a united left, but certainly in the last...

But an actual activated left is new in my lifetime.

That's right, up until the last six years probably the left had become a kind of muted and co-opted

like conservative middle that that from the Clinton years on and arguably all through the Reagan years in an attempt to kind of be bipartisan

adopted a pretty conservative economic program, embraced

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