DNC Chair Perez: You Can ‘Absolutely’ Be a Democratic Socialist and a Capitalist

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TODD: "Can you be a Democratic Socialist and for moral capitalism? Or is that --"
PEREZ: "Absolutely."
TODD: "-- at some point, does that get in contrast?"
PEREZ: "Don't forget, when Ronald Reagan was railing against Medicare in 1963, he said, 'Medicare,' this is a quote, 'will lead to socialized medicine and will lead to socialism in America.' This socialism thing, Medicare has led to security for our seniors. And so some people want to try to use labels and misuse labels. Here's what Democrats are about. We're about results. We're about making sure, if you have -- you have a right to healthcare. We're about making sure, if you work a full-time job, you ought to be able to feed your family. You ought to be able to reduce gun violence. We have people across this country who are going to be marching tomorrow, because they're going to be talking about this fake emergency and making us focus on the real emergency, which is people who are diabetic, who don't have access to healthcare."