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The Good Fight

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Yascha Mounk about the warning signs that signal the end of liberal democracies and how we can protect it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

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0:13.8

They've got some of the chunky, as swirly as flavours but the new sundaes range has an awesome whipped ice cream topping that's covered in gooey sauce and chocolatey chunks.

0:22.1

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0:25.4

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0:28.4

Available now.

0:29.5

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:34.1

I agree with you that there were lots of, you know, divisive comments, especially and unfortunately about the press.

0:39.2

We found out via tweet early this morning that Mr. Trump was, had decided to cancel.

0:43.9

When I first heard that he was tweeting about something that was on this broadcast, a number of tweets last night,

0:49.9

I kept thinking, doesn't he have like a briefing book on ISIS to be reading at dinner clock?

0:58.5

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin.

1:03.3

Trumpcast is the show about the president elect who trounced his opponent in the popular vote by a margin of 6.4 million,

1:10.5

when you measure the popular vote in Twitter followers who are mostly bots.

1:15.6

Trump's megaphone is Twitter, nothing but pure distilled fear and favour on an endless loop.

1:21.7

But just so we can tell, real from fake, it's good that the president elect uses the Twitter handle real Donald Trump.

1:28.4

Except no substitutes.

1:30.4

So Donald Trump tweeted some typically nuanced stuff this week, calling Chuck Jones, the head of United

1:35.7

Steelworkers 1999 in Indiana terrible and not good for having the temerity to criticise his carrier deal.

1:43.5

For those keeping track on a calculator, that adds Chuck Jones's name to the one bazillion, 400,000 and seven people

1:52.3

the Trump has now bashed by name on Twitter.

1:56.3

On today's show, some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

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