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I suspect, though, you don’t just have these little conniptions that then fade away.
“I suspect, though, you don’t just have these little conniptions that then fade away.”
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“I suspect, though, you don’t just have these little conniptions that then fade away.”
02 / belief
“I wouldn’t rule out Russia turning from abeying a Western democracy to being something quite hopeful. I think that’s definitely a positive thing that’s potentially going on there.”
03 / belief
“I believe there are good signs in the last few weeks and months of the system doing that ‑‑ the appointment of Mueller, the courts blocking the Muslim ban, again, repeatedly.”
04 / belief
“Others who’ve done this, and gone… I’d say I think he’s rated pretty well, highly.”
05 / belief
“” I think that in the United States, and to a large extent, Britain, we have commodified public life, and we have commodified to a degree that you just don’t see in places like Germany, and I think we have things to learn from parts of continental Europe, including how they treat their middle classes.”
06 / belief
“I think the retreat of Western liberalism isn’t just that we are having our problems at home and having to relearn some of the lessons of what liberal democracy actually means. But I think our models because are not performing well for the broad‑based electorates, that vote in our governments every few years.”
07 / belief
“I think the German answer ‑‑ and here’s where I would criticize the German sado‑managerist approach has actually been very damaging to Europe, particularly to the Club Med group of European countries, so I’m not sure I agree with Neil Ferguson.”
08 / belief
“You have many parties under two umbrellas, and you’re a continent, so it’s very hard to analogize the US with Europe. One thing I would say, is your system is not designed to be parliamentary.”
09 / belief
“I think America’s absence is really important, so I’m not particularly optimistic on that score, because I think America’s going to continue to be absent on these questions.”
10 / belief
“I think he was a brilliant president who [inaudible] down the Cold War with extraordinary finesse and skill.”
11 / belief
“I think in September, hopefully Merkel or Martin Schulz will be elected in the German elections, but the AFD is going to breach the five percent limit below which you can not achieve representation under the German system.”
12 / belief
“I would say the same for politics, too, not that I have any credibility on that subject.”
13 / belief
“I think that the Cold War kept America honest, as it were, and enabled this bipartisan support for America’s, as I say, unnatural global role of being the Hercules that sustains the liberal international order.”
14 / belief
“I think there is a cynicism about politics, which incidentally, manifested itself in France last Sunday, round two, the Macron En Marche landslide, was 40 percent turnout, which is a historic low for France.”
15 / belief
“The fact that it’s got, I think, 18 official languages, although they do add to that, the fact that it has got every religion under the sun, the fact that, as E.”
16 / belief
“I think that the further away we get from 2008 ‑‑ which is very much associated with the new left, the Third Way left, of Blair, Gordon Brown, and others ‑‑ the further away we get from that, the more we’e going to see populists left wing movements marshaling everywhere.”