The War Might Be the Beginning or the End of Populaism

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The war might make people recognize the importance of responsible political leadership. Popularism has roots in many things, including frivolity. And so i'm fascinated by the fact that there seems to be a revival of the reganite wing of the republican party. If you talk to the democrats in washington, they say that that's what we want. What's wrong with the party of regan? Which is not exactly what they were saying when regan was still alive, is it?

Radosław Sikorski is a Polish politician and journalist who is currently a Member of the European Parliament. He served as Defense Minister of Poland from 2005 to 2007, and as Foreign Minister from 2007 to 2014.

In this week’s conversation, Radosław Sikorski and Yascha Mounk discuss whether a unified Europe could play a real geopolitical role on the world stage in the future, reasons to be skeptical of the realist view that NATO or the West is to blame for the war, and the role of sanctioning Russia (and Russians) now and in the future.

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