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The Good Fight

Karen Stenner

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Karen Stenner about voters with an authoritarian personality, and whether they can explain the rise of populists like Donald Trump. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Liberal democracy has now reached the limits of many people's capacity to tolerate it.

0:10.8

And it comes from viewing intolerance and illiberal attitudes as being the

0:15.0

manifestations of an unevolved citizen, someone who hasn't quite completed

0:18.5

their democratic citizenship.

0:20.1

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:24.0

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

0:29.5

to for a town populist like Donald Trump.

0:31.5

Over the next 40 next 40. On June 19th, 1967,

0:38.0

Broadiswaffe Gremulka, for the facto leader of Poland,

0:42.0

held a keynote speech at the Sixth Trade Union Congress.

0:45.6

Since the Israeli aggression on the Arab countries was met with applause in Zionist circles of Jews,

0:50.2

Polish citizens, I wish to announce the following.

0:53.0

We have made no difficulties for Polish citizens of Jewish descent when they wish to move to Israel.

0:58.0

We maintain that every Polish citizen should have only one fatherland, people's Poland,

1:02.0

that those who feel these words are addressed

1:04.1

to them in respect to their nationality draw the proper conclusions.

1:08.3

We do not want a fifth column to be created in our country.

1:13.6

At the time, my grandparents were lifelong communists

1:18.4

having joined what they thought would be

1:20.5

a fight for equality between different ethnic groups, we're living in the heart of Poland.

1:27.6

My mother was a music student at the local conservatory in Warsaw. My uncle was still in high school. Over the course of the next year,

1:37.2

they were hounded by the government. My grandfather lost his job and was thrown out of a Communist Party. My mother going to her music

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