The 2009 financial crisis taught us hard lessons. Have Democrats learned them? | David Sirota and Alex Gibney

The political meltdown of a decade ago crushed faith in hope and change, and led to Maga and mayhem

A first-term Democratic president with a majority in Congress and an uncompromising Republican opposition. A country disillusioned by a previous administration’s corruption and mismanagement. A working class traumatized by an economic downturn. An establishment calling not for aggressiveness and boldness, but for half measures and compromise.

If this sounds familiar, it is not only because it describes this current moment, but because it is the experience we lived through 12 years ago – a political meltdown that destroyed many Americans’ remaining faith in their government, and ultimately birthed Donald Trump’s presidency.

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