Strongmen behaving badly – The changing face of populists
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved |
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| 0:11.8 | Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college? |
| 0:13.0 | I loved going to college. |
| 0:14.0 | It's good you can retrain and do something. |
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| 1:12.3 | When populist strong men have little else to offer, they offer pride. |
| 1:19.0 | Those are the words of Delhi-based political columnist Assima Lee in a piece that looked at the parallels between Erdogan and Modi. |
| 1:27.6 | We may dislike them, but we cannot ignore them. |
| 1:31.1 | According to the Tony Blair Institute, populist leaders have increased fivefold |
| 1:37.4 | between 1990 and 2018. My guest today is a historian and professor at New York University who has quite literally devoted her entire career as a scholar to the study of authoritarianism. |
| 1:51.0 | I consumed her latest book Strongman, How They Rise, Why They Succeed How They Fall, |
| 1:57.8 | Like a man in a desert with a tall glass of water, and I just knew I had to speak to her. |
| 2:03.0 | Welcome to the bunker, Ruth Ben Geat. |
| 2:06.0 | Thank you. |
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