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The Good Fight

Daniel Ziblatt

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk speaks to Daniel Ziblatt, the Eaton Professor at Harvard University, about the impact of the coronavirus on populism and democracy. Email: goodfightpod@gmail.com Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk Website: https://www.yaschamounk.com/ Podcast production by John T. Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Barclays, we're here for every goal.

0:06.4

We're here for the Premier League,

0:09.0

and the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:12.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance.

0:18.0

We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:27.6

Barclays, here for every goal.

0:30.1

The national political institutions,

0:31.8

I think pretty much as a result of Donald Trump's presidency, were also weakened.

0:37.0

And so the combination of these weakened institutions where there was not a role for expertise and contingency plans were thrown out.

0:43.8

Combined with the unevenness of state-level institutions that has always been there

0:47.8

has resulted in the situation that we're in.

0:50.4

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:54.0

We are in a strange phase of the Corona pandemic.

1:00.0

The gravity of a situation became clear at the very latest about a month ago.

1:07.0

We started to take extreme measures at social distancing, but it doesn't feel as though we've learned a lot more over the last couple of weeks.

1:21.0

We still don't really have a strong sense of a true fatality rate of a disease.

1:28.4

We still don't know how long it'll take to have an effective remedy or a vaccine. And so it can feel as though we're sitting at home

1:36.4

waiting out this crisis day by day and sure about what comes next. I don't know what comes next either, but I have a few thoughts on where

1:46.7

we are at. The first is a good piece of news. Extreme measures at social distancing do seem to be walking. The case

1:57.3

numbers, even with fatality rates in Italy and Spain and Korea are going down.

2:07.2

In the United States, the number of deaths

2:08.9

is still rising, but at least in the last few days

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