the college admissions scandal has enraged americans on all size of the political spectrum. critics argued that it is one example of how the wealthy use their privilege to provide for their kids. so could the backlash to this elite privilege explains why increasingly large percentage of americans feel open to democratic socialism. joining me editor at large, the author of winners take all, girdhahadas. gentlemen, thank you. we have record the other day. he s the scholar who sat on the davos panel and looks at the billionaires, i feel like i am in a firefighter s convention
years now because there is a series of elite failure and moving onto hurricane katrina then the financial crisis and epidemic of unarmed black men and women being killed by the police. americans have watched their television screens and seeing the elites failed us. it is unseen since world war i. americans have not seen their wages going up. bernie sanders and elizabeth warren that s the direction of where our politics are headed. during the financial crisis, all those people ended up sumping asum suffering and losing their home. so when you look at the moment we are in right now, are we in the middle of this change? is this going to be a pivot point of our politics and society? i have to tell you, i do
the first event of our campaign for president is an example of not only i wish to campaign across the country but for every single american and i can careless your party persuasion or religion, anything other than the fact that we are americans. any democrats running today and i may not be able to enumerate any of them now would be far better than the occupants of the white house. it is fundamental to our chances of success that we defeat donald trump in 2020. the former texas congressman joins a jam packed field over a dozen of democrats for the nomination. few candidates come with the kind of buzz that propel beto o rourke. the native was an unknown until ted cruz in 2018. he s short on legislative