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The Good Fight

A Time To Start Drinking

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Yascha Mounk argues that the American Republic won't go down without a massive fight, and talks to the Financial Times columnist Ed Luce about how the country can manage its relative decline without losing its democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Subject to local availability and 20th of October 2024. People. is by continuing to pretend to be a democracy. Yes, yeah.

0:43.0

So it's a much more insidious subtle threat.

0:45.3

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:55.0

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat over the

0:59.6

Italian populace like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40. In my research

1:06.1

I've shown that people are less invested in democracy than they used to be, but

1:11.0

were more open to or through return alternatives to democracy.

1:14.3

And that politicians who don't have a real investment in democratic norms keep gaining power.

1:20.3

Now when I've been going around saying this to people over the last years a lot of them just didn't quite buy it

1:27.1

They asked me has now a country been stable for hundreds of years and rich democracies around the world safe and as a result I

1:37.3

had one huge fear about the next four years I thought that Donald Trump and his team might subtly undermine

1:44.8

basic democratic norms over time without ever staging a full-on assault that

1:51.0

would alarm people and I feel that as a result most Americans

1:55.2

might sleep through this covert assault on the institutions not realizing how

1:59.6

dangerous this moment is to the very basic foundations of our political system until it's too late.

2:06.4

Well here's the good news folks. I no longer have this fear.

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