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And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to

for a time of populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

One of the key differences between liberal democracy and authoritarian regimes or the monarchies of the old world, is that you don't owe

allegiance to a person in a liberal democracy, at most you owe allegiance to the holder of a particular office.

When he swear in to be a civil servant, a political appointee, a soldier, you swear to defend the Constitution of the United States against enemies

by foreign and domestic.

As a soldier you were to obey the president, but the president in his office, not the specific president today.

That's what made Donald Trump's behavior towards James Comey so shocking.

That's why it's so terrible when the president demands personal loyalty from the director of the FBI.

And that's what makes it so worrying when populist strongmen around the world try to politicize the bureaucracy, make them the handmaidens of their personal interests, of their partisan preferences. So I was really excited to write last week for my

column at slate also called The Good Fight about a new initiative by a nonprofit

organization called United to Protect Democracy.

It's called uphold the oath.

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