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0:21.5	And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn
0:26.3	about the rise of the right from a domestic and international perspective.
0:31.5	Our clips today come from the Good Fight, Speak Out with Tim Wise, Ideas from the CBC,
0:38.1	the Trumpcast, Making Contact, and This Is Hell.
0:50.2	A lot of people think that the system is so corrupt and is so guilty that there's no
0:55.3	comparison to the guilt or corruption of somebody like Donald Trump.
0:58.2	But the problem is just that we underlying pre-existing waiver we do democracy in the United
1:03.9	States is so far gone that we need a bomb throw like Donald Trump to shake things up.
1:10.0	And that temptation is always going to be there and I really wonder about how we can change
1:17.2	that.
1:18.2	Do we need a radical institutional reform after Trump is out of office and real coming
1:21.9	together?
1:22.9	Is that ever likely to happen?
1:24.2	How do we make people less hostile to political elites and to the institutions we have?
1:35.9	Because if they remain as angry as they are and honestly in some ways for good reason
1:40.8	they are angry, we'll surely always live with a danger of somebody like Trump coming
1:46.4	back in.
1:47.4	Yeah, I mean, I think that there's sort of two angles to this.
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