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The Good Fight

Sabeel Rahman

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk discusses the problem with monopoly power; the role of anti-corporate rhetoric in leftist politics; and how to build a winning coalition for ambitious change with Sabeel Rahman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Economist provides independent journalism for independent thinking and has been

0:05.1

championing progress for almost 200 years.

0:08.3

With the Economist, you gain access to fact-based, deeply researched expert analysis of world events and topics

0:14.3

ranging from business and culture to politics, science and technology.

0:18.2

Tune into the global conversation with reporting from correspondence around the world,

0:23.0

available in-app online through podcasts and print.

0:26.5

So for fact sake, search the economist.

0:30.4

One of the key things we need to do is to create the laws and the institutions of the policies that prevent concentrations of power so that we the people can actually govern ourselves.

0:43.0

And antitrust law is a piece of that story,

0:45.0

but it's just one piece, and there's a lot more in that umbrella.

0:50.0

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:54.0

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

0:59.2

to the Italian populace like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:05.0

A lot of people have been talking about whether Donald Trump is mentally ill.

1:12.0

I think that there is a destruction for a number of reasons.

1:15.6

First of all, they tend to claim that he has somehow mentally deteriorated over the last

1:20.9

years. The terrible foe Trump's daily actions in office are.

1:25.2

I just don't see any evidence of that.

1:27.2

I don't see him having been that different when he was on the campaign trail.

1:30.7

I don't see him having been that different 10 years ago. Secondly I think it is a big political

1:37.6

distraction. The 25th Amendment was designed in the aftermath of John of Kennedy's assassination to deal with a

1:46.4

president who is clearly physically incapacitated.

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