Fareed Zakaria
speaker
2,161 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Fareed Zakaria’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And now the Swiss can have lower tariffs because they gave me a gold bar.
I mean, that is, you know, that's that state power of a kind that, you know, no president has ever wielded.
It looked like that at the time.
You know, it's funny.
It's like, it's like, that's the thing about life is, you know, this is what gives me hope, John.
Nothing stays the same.
Yes.
So that's what we have to hope.
To the rare parts.
Well, it was a huge pleasure, honestly.
But you asked me to do it when I was very young, and it was based on my first book, actually, which was all about illiberal democracy, you know, democracies where elected rulers start to abuse, elected leaders start to abuse the rule of law and, you know, individual rights.
In those days, I was talking about places like
Pakistan and the Philippines, not the United States of America.
And it was a huge pleasure.
And of course, it leaves me wondering, what happened, John?
What am I, chopped liver?
Look, there's no question that that's true.
When I was writing about it, when I coined the phrase illiberal democracy in 96, 97, I was looking at places like Pakistan, the Philippines, Slovakia, Turkey, Erdogan, you could begin to see it happening.
And I always thought that this is not going to affect the developed world as much.
I did actually in my book have a chapter or two about America, but I thought it was sort of like a tendency, a danger that we were becoming too enamored of the idea of these charismatic leaders.
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