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So for fact sake, search the economist.

If Trump flames out after one term, Republicans will imitate him exactly as much as Democrats

imitated Jimmy Carter in the sense that they will have seen that as a failed model.

Most people don't look at a presidential election

that ends up with one term

and then the other party sweeping back into power

as necessarily a great model.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

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

to for a time populist like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next

40. In place of my usual little spiel about the world that I do at the beginning of this

podcast I'm afraid to say that today I'll have to do some

self-promotion and I promise it'll be the last time for a little while.

My book The People versus Democracy, Why Our Freedom is in danger and how to save it, is now finally out.

It's the third book I've written and honestly it's the first one that I'm really, really

keen to get into people's hands because whether you end up agreeing with it or not

...