Trump and the economy: The administration’s biggest victories also exacerbated our divides
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🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, our Can He Do That team is still on break for the holidays, but we have one last piece of our three-part series from earlier this year that we're bringing back for you this week. |
| 0:09.4 | Just before the presidential election, our series focused on the legacy of the past four years of the Trump administration. |
| 0:15.1 | If you listen to these episodes now with the election behind us, the series reveals what drove some voter decisions at the polls, |
| 0:21.5 | and it forecasts some of the debates happening within our political parties today. |
| 0:25.4 | Here's the last episode of that series on Trump and the economy. |
| 0:32.1 | The Trump administration has exposed the vulnerabilities in so many parts of the American system. |
| 0:38.4 | So far in this series, we've taken a look at the ways the past four years have exacerbated |
| 0:43.3 | racial divisions in this country and how the politicization of scientific knowledge left Americans |
| 0:49.2 | in doubt about shared understandings and truths. |
| 0:52.6 | But you can't talk about the divisions in this country |
| 0:55.2 | without addressing an undeniable piece of the modern American story. |
| 1:00.7 | Wealth disparity. |
| 1:02.4 | Now, wealth disparity in the U.S. predates President Trump. |
| 1:05.7 | Trump, of course, did not build the foundation of the United States economy. |
| 1:09.6 | He did not create its flaws. We have to have a limit on the foundation of the United States economy. He did not create its flaws. |
| 1:12.0 | We have to have a limit on the flow of money |
| 1:15.2 | in that corporations are not people. |
| 1:18.0 | The middle class is collapsing. |
| 1:20.0 | Poverty is increasing. |
| 1:21.6 | The people on Papa doing phenomenally well. |
| 1:24.4 | He's going to let the big banks once again |
| 1:26.3 | write their own rules. |
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