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The Good Fight

Tim Dixon

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Tim Dixon, a co-founder of More in Common, about why the usual story on America’s deepening polarization is wrong; the views of America’s “exhausted majority”; how progressive activists differ from the rest of the country; and how Democrats can build a winning coalition by mobilizing “passive liberals” and persuading moderates. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org Twitter:@Yascha_Mounk This podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.4

activist group rather than the conservatives, The conservatives, including the devoted

0:44.2

conservatives, are actually closer to the average in terms of underlying beliefs.

0:50.0

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:54.0

Welcome to the podcast that such as the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to

0:58.0

four-taran populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:06.0

Normally I try to say something interesting and original

1:10.0

in this little opening spiel. I know the privilege of having so many of you

1:16.1

listening to this and I try to do my best to add something to your day.

1:20.8

Today I'm not going to do that, I'm going to say something that is obvious to all of you but that

1:25.7

bears repeating nonetheless. Populist governments and parties and movements and movements actually stay in power a long time on average.

1:37.0

They manage to undermine the most basic rules and norms of global democracy to make the playing field uneven,

1:46.4

to make it harder and harder for the opposition to succeed.

1:51.6

And one of the best predictors of whether they are successful in that is whether or not the opposition manages to retain throughout their tenure in power some kind of counterbalance, whether they control a few institutions in the country that can stop

2:07.1

of the Italian populists from dismantling free and fair elections and other things.

2:13.0

We haven't had that for the last two years,

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