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Working Class vs Protesters: 1970 and the Democratic Party Divide
David Paul Kuhn, reporter, political analyst and the author of The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), talks about the Democrats' intra-party "culture war," evidenced by the 1970 anti-war protest in Manhattan broken up by construction workers.