Why Anti-Democratic Populists Keep Winning Elections

In Episode 64 of his podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen speaks with Ben Rhodes, a former Obama national security adviser, about why anti-democratic movements are on the rise around the world.

Ben Rhodes, a former national security advisor to Barack Obama, has a theory. Based on interviews he did with journalists, activists, and dissidents facing anti-democratic movements around the world, he explains how right wing leaders with an authoritarian bent have exploited the downsides of globalization to seize power – and he says it’s due in no small part to major blunders made by the United States.

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