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The Good Fight

Nicholas Casey

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Nicholas Casey discuss whether left-populism is as dangerous as right-populism; why things are so much worse in Venezuela than they are in Ecuador; and why Latin American politics may hold the key to America’s future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I think the lesson that you get from Venezuela is very clearly this.

0:37.0

Dictatorships come out of democracies.

0:40.0

It does not have to be a group of men with aviator glasses and guns coming out of their military barracks and taking over things in a coup.

0:50.0

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:54.0

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

0:59.2

retiring populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:05.0

A few days ago I was at a big sort of fancy conference in New York,

1:12.0

you know one of those things that convenes a whole bunch of world leaders to talk to or mostly at an audience of CEOs and media leaders and so on.

1:22.0

And one of the people who came to speak,

1:24.1

as well as some more liberal pen-ep boys,

1:26.5

like Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron,

1:29.4

was the authoritarian pen-up boy,

1:31.4

Rasepe Erdogan, the president of Turkey, and it was quite chilling actually to be in the same room, I mean a few yards away from one of the people who we've talked and thought about on this podcast, one of the people who we've talked and thought about in this

1:43.8

podcast one of the people who are very much at the forefront of the illiberal

1:47.2

international who when asked for example about his treatment of journalists was

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