How To Understand Your Enemy

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We like to think the right argument could persuade our friend or uncle of our point of view. But what if our personality helps to determine how we see the world? Dr. John Hibbing, a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, believes that psychology, rather than culture or economic circumstances, explains much of our politics. In this week’s episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and John Hibbing sit down to discuss the drivers of our political beliefs, why a longing for cultural security helps to explain the rise of Trumpism, and how to get on with those who are wired differently from us. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: goodfightpod@gmail.com Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams and Rebecca Rashid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify Apple Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	I think that whenever politics starts to center on those concepts of identity and
0:37.1	insiders and outsiders as was a case back in the 1860s with the Civil War and I
0:41.8	would say again in the 1960s with campus unrest and Vietnam. the that happens then I think politics is going to be particularly intense and
0:53.6	frequently bloody. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:00.9	There is some reason to hope that democracies will finally stand up for values.
1:10.0	After years in which the European Union has ignored the threat from a retired
1:15.4	populist like Victor Arban in Hungary and Kaczynski in Poland, after the terrible
1:20.5	presidency of Donald Trump in the United States.
1:25.0	We are now seeing a little bit of movement towards asserting democratic values.
1:31.7	Joe Biden has promised to put the protection of democratic institutions at home and abroad at the
1:37.8	center of his agenda.
1:39.6	The European Union is starting rule of law initiatives against Poland and Hungary.
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