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The Good Fight

A World Without a Leader

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk explains the global costs of the Trump Presidency and talks to Hans Kundnani about the differences between Trump and Brexit, how to preserve the liberal world order, and the dangers of national neoliberalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:38.0

I think pretending that Merkel can replace the US president I think is a way of

0:42.4

pretending that there is still kind of a leader of the free world

0:45.3

the reality is if the US president doesn't play that role the free world has no leader

0:50.5

and now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:54.0

On this podcast I talk a lot about whether Donald Trump is a threat to democracy in the United States.

1:00.0

But there's also another big worry I have, the way in which Trump is already

1:04.7

boosting or for a town populists and straight-out dictators all across the world.

1:09.6

Just take a snapshot of what's been happening around the world in the last weeks.

1:15.0

In Russia, Vladimir Putin has arrested thousands of protesters.

1:19.0

In Hungary, Viktor Arban is preparing to close down Central European University, a wonderful institution in Budapest.

1:26.0

In Egypt, a huge number of opponents of General Alsies' dictatorships are routinely arrested, tortured or even killed.

1:35.3

In India, Noreenra Modi has appointed a fundamentalist monk to be the chief minister of

1:40.0

Uttar Pradesh, the country's biggest state.

1:42.9

And strongman leaders are also moving

1:44.4

to constrict the space of freedom in Poland

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