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often say that populists offer simple answers to complex questions and that this is part of

their appeal flipping this is it a problem for progressives that we find the complexity in everything

even those questions which can be simplified and as a result get little done james monder i'm

pronouncing your surname correctly a 100% agree with this.

Totally.

I mean, there are so many kind of, as you put it on the pod on Friday's pod that we're facing asymmetric challenges.

Yes.

And one of them is this yearning to be kind of, you know, put everything on the table and to

be honest and direct, which is,

which is great, but it doesn't acknowledge that people want to be told very quickly in very

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