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Dot, S-U-B-S-T-A-C-K. percent of the podcast. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

I've heard of many people being scared since Trump's second term.

And Larry Diamond wrote an excellent article about defending democracy in America.

And I just wanted to say that we need to resist pessimism and standing up to a bully is tough,

but we have to do it because that's what they want without people standing up to a bully is tough, but we have to do it because that's what they want without

people standing up to him. So I just wondered what your thoughts are about his ideas. He had like

eight ideas and other things to talk about. Yeah. I mean, look, Larry Diamond is, you know,

one of the most important scholars about democracy,

and I think both his previous article for Martin purpose in which he laid out why we are now in a constitutional crisis and his article, you know,

making a set of arguments about what we should do about it.

We're really informative and convincing.

And he has some good advice about, you know, what every person can do to

stand up to any attempt at Nafortar and takeover. Now, I do think more broadly that there is

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