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The Good Fight

James Bloodworth

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to James Bloodworth, author of Hired, about how the impact that Amazon warehouses have had on small British towns, a viable political program for the far left, and the shortcomings of Jeremy Corbyn. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk Podcast production by John T. Williams This episode brought to you by The Great Courses. The Great Courses is giving Good Fight listeners a special, limited time offer: Order Investigating American Presidents video course taught by Professor Paul Rosenzweig, JD and get 85% off the regular price!That’s a $150 savings! And you can start watching it instantly! Just go to www.thegreatcourses.com/GoodFight for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And no deal is currently a bit agreed, I mean, so that could well happen.

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And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

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About a week ago, Yoni-Aprobaum wrote a very compelling cover story for the Atlantic

0:59.8

called The Case for impeachment. In it he makes three basic arguments for why we should

1:06.2

impeach Donald Trump. The first is the moral case. I fully agree with that case we don't need to go back over it here. The second is the

1:17.3

legal case. Yoni essentially argues that you don't have to have broken any

1:21.9

obvious laws in order to be removed from office.

1:27.0

It is enough that you have consistently attacked liberal democracy in a way that is concerning. I can't evaluate the legal

1:38.4

argument, I'm not a lawyer, but it seemed quite persuasive to me as well. The third argument that Joni made was strategic.

1:49.1

He said that impeaching Trump would have all kinds of good consequences. It would make it harder for Trump

1:53.8

to control the narrative. It would distract the White House so much that it would

1:59.0

become much more difficult for him to actually change the country in the ways he is trying to at the moment.

2:08.8

And it might even turn public opinion against Trump. Well, it's on this most important, the strategic ground that I disagree

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