“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordJune 16, 2021
You want to know what this is really about. The Nixon campaign in 1968 and the Nixon White House after that had two enemies: The anti-war left and Black people.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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Cohen discusses Nixon's strategy to criminalize drugs to target specific communities.

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