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Welcome to the good fight. the podcast that searches for the ideas and policies and

strategies that can be the full-time populist like Donald Trump over the next four years

and the next 14.

Believe it or not, it's been nearly a year since the first episode of The Good Fight aired.

We've had a little bit 20 wonderful guests and gotten through the pretty tough year of 2017

together. We've also grown our audience quite a lot and so we thought that as a holiday treat we would

replay one of my very favorite episodes of Goodfire Decormization I had early

on with Francis Fukuiano and we'll be back in the new year with lots of new exciting

guests so please tell your friends to subscribe and please come back a few weeks from now.

Thank you. When have countries really undergone systemic major overhauls?

It's usually after a war, after a revolution, after a really major economic crisis when everybody is so impressed with the failure of the old system

that they're willing to try something very different.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat up for a retirement populist like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

I want to revisit a debate we had a couple of weeks ago

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