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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In the age of “reactionary populism”, larger-than-life characters trump competence. Can liberal democracies survive the age of the performative strongman? Political economist and author of This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain William Davies tells Dorian Lynskey about Trump, truth, and television politics – and why the death of neoliberalism might be a win for democracy. “Competence implies something governmental and administrative. That’s not Trump.” “The character of Boris has been cultivated over time. He’s a promises, not policy, politician.” “Neoliberalism colonises the political sphere with economics, and makes it a sham. That’s damaging for popular participation.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.6	Center at Goldsmiths University of London, an author of books including Nervous
1:16.8	States, Democracy and The Decline of Reason. He's also one of the
1:19.8	sharpest commentators on post-2016 politics and his new book This is Not Normal, collect some of the columns he's
1:24.6	written for the Guardian the London Review books and other places it makes for
1:28.3	fascinating as it happened account of the last four turbulent years and raises
1:32.4	many questions about what happens next.
1:34.3	Hi Will, thanks for joining me.
1:35.5	Not so, it's great to be here.
1:37.0	It must be tempting to sort of surgically remove a bad takes from an anthology like this, you know, predicting a glorious rain for Theresa May.
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