The Good Fight Club: Epstein, Columbia, Ukraine, Fed Independence

Listen, he promised his voters and followers a revolution and revolution always lives in the shadow of betrayal. And the major question is, is he one of us or he's one of them? And from this point of view, basically, a kind of Trump biography does not make it easy for some of the MAGA voters to be sure that he's one of them. And as a result of it, this is a crisis. And now the good fight.

with Yasha Monk. Well, you're in for a tree today. We are doing an experiment, a panel show, in which we get some of my all-time favorite guests of the podcast and we talk about some of the interesting, exciting, confusing, upsetting news of the last week. And for this inaugural round, I have assembled for you Mona Charon, who is the policy editor at the Bulwark and the host of a great relatively new podcast called The Mona Charon Show.

We have Ivan Krostev, who is the founder of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Humane Sciences. I think that's the right translation from the German in Vienna. And we have, of course, my co-conspirator at Persuasion and American Purpose, which he founded, Francis Fukuyama, who is a senior fellow at the Center for Democracy and the Rule of Law at Stanford. The way this is going to work is where we jump into a bunch of topics and hear very brief thoughts from each panelist about what they make of this topic and then we have a bit of a free-fall and think about it.

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