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The Good Fight

Brian Klaas

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Yascha Mounk talks to Brian Klaas about how to save democratic norms at home and promote democratic rule abroad.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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populist like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:05.4

I've been thinking a bunch about character.

1:09.2

I've been thinking about it in part because of Rod Rosenstein, the assistant attorney general, who went along with

1:17.7

writing a trumped up memo at the behalf of Donald Trump against James Comi but then sort of turned around and appointed a special prosecutor.

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But he's really only one example.

1:31.0

And it's this, are people deep down good or bad, and this is revealed in the actions in the Trump era?

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It's revealed if they decide for the love of country to go into the administration and be the

1:44.1

upstanding professionals who rein things in and then they're corrupted by the way

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that the administration works. Or could any good person be corrupted by going into the Trump administration?

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And I've increasingly been thinking about the latter.

2:00.0

I don't think it is that we have these very fixed character traits and that we will be able to resist any kind of pressure.

2:08.0

I think that anybody at this point who goes into an administration that is clearly so set on undermining the independence of

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