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The Good Fight

Ezra Klein

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In this special episode of The Good Fight, Ezra Klein interviews Yascha Mounk about his recent book, The People vs Democracy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:07.8

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0:11.1

or rev up the romance with 360 sunset views.

0:15.0

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0:17.0

And the biggest deal of all, you can book in store and online right now.

0:22.0

The Virgin Atlantic Holiday sale. See the world differently.

0:27.0

Teases and sees at Virgin Holidays. co-dot UK. policy is not really the core divide in American politics. The parties change

0:39.8

policy certainly over the course of a couple decades pretty

0:42.2

dramatically. I mean if you

0:43.2

look at Bill Clinton's 1996 Democratic Party platform it sounds on immigration

0:48.2

like Donald Trump does today. And now the good fight with Yasha Monck.

0:54.0

Well, it is finally happening.

0:58.0

The United Kingdom is about to leave the European Union, the first country to leave the EU in its history.

1:07.0

On the continent, this is actually being celebrated to some extent as a success. In 2016 the Brexiteer

1:17.1

said that Europeans would be unable to cooperate in the negotiations. That the

1:22.0

German car industry would swoop in and tell Angela Merkel to give Britain a really lenient deal.

1:28.0

None of those things happened and because the British political scene has not exactly looked appealing for the last few years

1:35.7

There doesn't seem to be a contagion effect from Brexit

1:39.7

It elects it

1:40.9

Brexit might still happen at some point. It does not look like they're about to happen in the next couple of years.

1:47.0

So perhaps we use in good shape. Well, I don't think so. I think this is a moment in which Europeans should think very hard about the institutions of the European Union.

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