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The Good Fight

Divided We Fall

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Yascha Mounk explains why social media favors political outsiders over insiders and talks to Lee Drutman about the dangerous racial and cultural divide in American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I mean the last time we had a political alignment that looked like this was

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1850s, 1860 and we wound up in a civil war and so we

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killed off a lot of our own population. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

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

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beat over the entire population population like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

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Twelve years after the printing press was invented,

1:08.0

the technology had not yet left the city of Mainz.

1:11.0

Only a handful of people had ever held a printed book in the hands.

1:14.9

12 years into the invention of Facebook it has spread around the whole world. The

1:19.4

platform now has 2 billion active users. What will the effect of its rapid transformation be? Can it help to explain

1:26.0

the rise of populism? It's difficult to remember now that five years ago digital technology

1:31.6

and especially social media were supposed to bring democracy

1:34.8

to far-flung countries and to deepen democratic institutions here at home.

1:39.6

Breathless articles were celebrating the Twitter revolution in Egypt in Syria. Dictators were

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