Hard Hat Riot | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00Be proud! Be proud! Be proud!

00:03When I was a student, I became strongly anti-war.

00:07I just felt, we have to fight this. We have to. This is awful.

00:11USA, all the way! USA, all the way!

00:15To us, you know, we grew up that you support the United States of America.

00:20And the odds were stacked against us, the working class.

00:24The war was falling disproportionately on our shoulders.

00:30The war, the war!

00:40Watching TV at night, that's all you heard was the war protests, the war protests.

00:44And you didn't hear much about support of the troops.

00:47I felt they had a beating coming.

00:49And you take that flag and throw it on the floor and step on it. You just made it personal.

01:01We are the second American revolution. We are winning.

01:04We are winning.

01:05I approve of what you do, because it's gonna cause a revolution, but not your kind, my kind.

01:09Richard Nixon will seize this moment and shift the Republican Party from blue bloods to blue collars.

01:15The Hard Hat Riot is a microcosm of the polarization that will come to define American life.

01:21Sometimes the best way to understand the troubled present is to look back at the past and a moment that shifted history.

01:28The Hard Hat Riot

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01:40The Hard Hat Riot