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The age of the strongman leader

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I Think It's Part of the Same Global Phenomenon as the Election of Donald Trump

i did think about it very hard. Partly because i thought, you know, there's a lot of british readers who will be antagonized by this and willt the book to one side. And partly because, talking to people outside britain about brexet and so on, they very much saw it as part of two political earthquakes in 20 16 that had rocked the western liberal order. The other one was the election of donald trump. And they were both the kind of reassertion of er, of nationalism and er. You know, sir sir trump said he was actually really in britain on the day of the brekot vote, i think

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