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Ece Temelkuran on the politics of emotion

How We Live Now with Katherine May

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The Power of Joy in Politics

Right-wing populism, all these leaders with fascist inclinations, they are masters when it comes to managing politics of emotions. And I like, for me, that's part of the compelling nature of people like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, is that they make it look fun. Maybe we on the left of the spectrum don't manage to make our vision of the world look quite so jolly... We have to say something about anger, fear, what else? All these emotions are going to be shaping our politics in the coming decades. So, we have to deal with this."

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