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"I don't know how to make this part of the right message, but I do think that what we're seeing with wages not going up very fast is sort of the same structural economic problem we've seen for decades: that the economy grows and the economy contract and yet we don't see benefits accruing to the vast majority of people. I think part of what explains Trump -- beyond all the ... obvious causes -- is some kind of fundamental sense amongst people that things aren't fair, and that we, each of us, don't have as much dignity in the society as we used to have. And that's something that crosses parties: because I think you see some of that same feeling in the desire for revolutionary change Bernie Sanders. It's something you see across races: Donald Trump appealed to it by using racism for white voters, but that same sense that something is broken -- in our economy, in our culture -- that saps us of dignity in our dealings with our bosses at work, where we don't feel we have enough power, with the companies we give money to every day -- the cable companies and the airlines and the banks -- and the people we deal with ... And I think Democrats don't neccesarily have -- none of us have -- the language for how to talk about this; I don't have the language to talk about this. But I think about it all the time. I think about it when we talk about the way in which people leave the Trump administration and pay no price for it. And it seems like it's disconnected -- but a culture that doesn't prize basic values about fairness, integrity, honesty, is a culture in which people feel as if the only way to get ahead is to cheat and steal and lie. And that brokennes is part of our politics, and it's a huge part of our culture right now, and I don't think that anyone has the language, really, to talk about it." -- Jon Lovett, on Pod Save America, 2018-03-11

[Not sure how he would have punctuated that or whether it would have been more than one paragraph, if he'd written it instead of speaking extemporaneously. This is my impression, punctuation-wise, of how it came out when he said it.]