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The Good Fight

Anne Applebaum

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Yascha Mounk talks to Anne Applebaum about how authoritarians take power, the threat of social media, and the first six months of Trump's presidency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So can he change the Constitution? You know, so can he change the way he's then elected?

0:55.4

Can he change the way Congress works? Can he change the way legislation has passed?

1:00.0

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

1:04.0

Welcome to a podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to for

1:09.2

a time populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:14.3

Europeans really hate Donald Trump and for the best of reasons they cannot stand his ragging,

1:25.0

they cannot stand his open sort of racist appeals,

1:29.0

they find him culturally repellent, but you know at some level they also love Donald Trump.

1:36.4

They love that Donald Trump reinforces every European prejudice about America, that he is the ugliest of Americans, that he

1:48.7

encapsulates everything they've always wanted to look down upon in America.

1:54.0

And that's understandable, but I think there's a danger here because Europeans have not been

1:58.8

as forthright and as clear and standing up to challenges to democracy as they might have been either.

2:05.0

Just to name one example, Victor Orban's party, Fidesh,

2:10.0

is still a member of the European People's Party, the grouping of center-right parties in the European Parliament,

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