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The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein summarized the book's argument that a sense that government no longer works creates fertile ground for populist authoritarians like Trump.
There's a book by William Howell and Terry Moe, a political scientist, called Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. They basically make this argument that one of the things that creates f...
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Ezra Klein summarized the book's argument that a sense that government no longer works creates fertile ground for populist authoritarians like Trump.
There's a book by William Howell and Terry Moe, a political scientist, called Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. They basically make this argument that one of the things that creates fertile ground for populist authoritarians, which you see in many different countries but Trump represents here, is this sense that government doesn't really work anymore.