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Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Zero Sumness in Human Life

Trump's belief in zero sumness is at the core of his worldview. He believes that for one group to win a little bit more, another group has to lose alittle bit more. Trump speaks from a fundamentally transactional zero sum place. And it's very powerful. Like every single day, you have to be like, I don't really understand how it is that the economy makes more jobs but it does.

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