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Welcome to the Mona Charon Show. So glad you could join me. I'm delighted to welcome back, an old friend and colleague from the begged to differ days, namely Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal.

Bill has written a wonderful new book.

I will show it.

Anger, fear, and domination, dark passions, and the power of political speech.

Bill, nice to have you back.

How are you?

Oh, it's great to be back.

Well, I'm doing better than the country is. I can tell you that.

Yeah, I know. We all feel it.

So your new book is relevant to the moment that we find ourselves in.

You have set out, it's a short book, but a very,

a very mey one, where you have set out to examine the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy that come from within. So let's talk about that. What is your thesis?

My thesis is that liberal democracy suffers from some of the same weaknesses that all forms

of political organization do and some weaknesses that are distinctive to it, as it has developed since its

inception some centuries ago. So let's start with the ones that are distinctive to liberal democracy.

First of all, liberal democracy is hard because it goes against the grain.

It requires all sorts of self-sorts of self-restraints because, you know, coexisting with people who think and act and live differently from you

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