What Does Revenge of Power Look Like?

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This is a world wide attack on checks and balances. And so what does revenge of power look like? First of all, he political sphere. How is it that these populaces use these tactics in order to reconcentrate power in their own hands? The oterto being post truth and polarization. What are these different tools and how do we interrolate? Like populism, polarization has always existed. You have good collesterol and bad colestero. Its different groups that are polarz in their politics,. But they interact and compete, and then eventually end up with one of the groups getting to be the winner or create politias with others. That's good democratic colest

Moisés Naím is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Persuasion board of advisors. He has served as Minister of Trade and Industry for Venezuela, Executive Director of the World Bank, and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine. His latest book is The Revenge of Power.

In this week’s conversation, Moisés Naím and Yascha Mounk discuss how authoritarian powers have banded together to respond to the challenges of technology and decentralization, the proliferation of the “Three P’s” (polarization, populism, and post-truth), and the challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.

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