Michael McFaul

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Michael McFaul, the former US Ambassador to Russia, about the roots of America’s conflict with the Kremlin, whether a better relationship between the countries would have been possible, and how democracies can protect themselves against autocrats who are intent on promoting dictatorship around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.9	preferences for a more open system of government.
0:50.5	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:55.0	Welcome to a podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be
0:59.0	to for a time populist like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.
1:05.0	As you know there were elections in Italy a few months ago and it wasn't clear what kind of government the country would get to whether it would be able to form a government at all.
1:13.7	at all.
1:14.7	Popular parties of different stripes won nearly two-thirds of the vote and it wasn't clear
1:18.5	what the path forward might be.
1:21.1	Well, it now very much looks as for Italy will have a new government and it is a
1:26.4	strange postmodern iteration on the old historical red-brown pacts.
1:34.0	One of the governing parties is going to be the frightful League, which used to be called the
1:38.4	Northern League, a deeply xenophobic party. And the other movement is called Five Stars.
1:45.0	Its origins are complicated, but it started very much on the left with a comedian Beper Grillo,
1:50.0	who in some ways had similarity with somebody like John Stewart railing against the
1:56.0	failings of Silv Belisconi's government throughout the 2000s and the early 2010s and
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