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Robert Reich: “It's not just isolationism, it is Donald Trump's assumption that the world is basically a zero-sum game, in which there…”

On the recordJanuary 22, 2017
It's not just isolationism, it is Donald Trump's assumption that the world is basically a zero-sum game, in which there we win only to the extent that somebody else loses.
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Robert Reich

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Robert Reich critiques Trump's worldview and its implications for international relations.

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