The only people that seem to motivate people in politics now are people that can do kind of the rock star approach do the celebrity approach

You know Obama Trump love him or hate him. I mean that's why he does what he does. Clinton captured that for a while, but I would say the past 30 years have been

characterized by people in well-off affluent democracies

bitching about everything because they are living in well-off affluent

democracies.

And I think it tells you that Nietzsche and Eric Hoffer and Francis Fukuyama were all right. Welcome to Beg to Differ the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil

conversation across the political spectrum. We range from center left to

center right. I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined by our regulars. Bill Galston of the Wall Street Journal and the Brookings Institution, Linda Chavez of the Niskannon Center and

Damon Linker who writes the sub-stack newsletter notes from the middle ground and

this week our special guest is Tom Nichols of the Atlantic.

Tom, you no longer have that long title about the Naval War College and all that,

so that's...

Disclaimers, I don't speak for the government.

Yeah, you don't speak for them.

So now you're really, it's complete Tom Nichols unbound,

which is great.

So I would like to begin by addressing a topic that a few people on this panel have already written about, namely the EU elections this week.

It is being characterized Bill Galston as a frightening win for the right-wing parties in Europe.

Macrom has had to schedule, well,

has chosen in response to the strong showing of the National Rally or the

La Penn Party, snap parliamentary election.

So that's the way it's being interpreted.

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