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The Good Fight

The Democratic Recession

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the second episode of "The Good Fight," Yascha Mounk lays out the best-case scenario for the Trump years and speaks to Larry Diamond, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, about the global recession of democracy--and how to build the kind of coalition that can beat back authoritarian populists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0

I am worried about what a Donald Trump presidency may represent for our democracy and our freedom.

0:49.0

But if we are going to defend democracy and freedom. We will need the active support of people on

0:56.7

the Republican and conservative sides of the political divides. And now the good fight

1:02.0

with Yasha Monk.

1:04.0

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

1:10.0

of a retiring populist like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:16.0

In the first episode of this podcast I explained why would be a big mistake

1:21.0

to underestimate Trump. We can't be sure he lose because

1:25.1

approval ratings are terrible or because he'll betray his base on the economy or

1:29.7

because he can't build the war. Well generally I've come to be known as a bit of a pessimist, a kind of

1:35.9

Dr Doom of democracy. And there's reasons for this. I've shown in a lot of research that people

1:41.9

across the world are turning against democracy in a pretty deep way

1:45.3

and when you look at the nasty surprises we've seen in 2016

1:50.3

it's very tempting to be pessimistic.

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