The Good Fight Club: Mamdani Mania, the Neverending Shutdown, and the Trump-Xi Summit

I'll be blunt and say that I think America brought and championed extreme sterility and Puritan spirit in politics, which lasted for many, many decades. And us Europeans, we are much more used to seeing the dead French presidency. mistress sitting next to his wife at a funeral, or a president marrying his high school teacher, or, you know, all kinds of variations that we had throughout Europe of that. And now the Good Fight with Yasha Monk. Welcome to the tenth installment of the Good Fight Club.

I am joined Today by our semi-regular co-host and panelist, Sabina Sudic, who is a Member of Parliament in Bosnia-Herzegovina and since a week or two ago, the leader of her party. Welcome Sabina. Thank you. Thank you.

I am joined by Damon Linke, who is familiar to readers of persuasion because we often publish his excellent articles and who is the author and publisher of the Notes from the Middle Ground Substack. Welcome Damon. Thanks for having me. Good to be here. And I'm joined for the first time by the host of a rival podcast on the Persuasion Network called The Bookstack.

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