Is There a Lack of Opportunity in Politics?

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All three of them are entertainers in some respects, right? Showmen. Bellascone owned whole tv and medin communications company. Trump emerges not just as flubsy business man, but as a celebrity reality t v. And bors Johnson is a journalist who also has a very quick wit on ofe. They're extremely retail politicians, so they're tapping into the grievances. But there's an entertainment quality that i think we can't underestimate.

Fiona Hill is the former Senior Director for Europe and Russia of the National Security Council under President Trump and a key witness in his first impeachment trial. She is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. In her latest book, There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century, she describes her journey from the post-industrial north of England to the world of academia at Harvard and the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.

In this week’s conversation, Fiona Hill and Yascha Mounk discuss the resonance of populism for working class voters, remaining true to principle in the Trump administration, and the future of Great Power conflict.

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