There are some problems that face the world that cannot be decided at the local level. Flows of international trade cannot be regulated by local politics. There are resistance to, you know, to Russia and China can't be done simply through local politics. We want politics to be local, but at the same time, we need it to be international.
Journalist and author Anne Applebaum talks about her book, Twilight of Democracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Applebaum discusses the rise of populist and nationalist movements in Eastern Europe as well as in the West, and the appeal of these movements even when they begin to erode or destroy democracy.