
Who Got Bailed Out with Eric Levitz
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Are You a Democrat? Or a Republican?
There's like two sort of countervail forces within the republican party, which is this simultaneous instinct towards self preservation and towards the preservation of the profitability of capital. And so it does create sort of the contradict your position, where yo're not not sure exactly what's motivating them at the same time. It would take, i think, an extended staring contest in order to get real, significant concessions like a guaranteed equity stakes and invoting shares in the corporations that are bailed out. But even that presumes that republicans are even operating using that calculus. I think need to sweat,. you need to weit them out and stare them down, even as the economy started to fall apart even
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