[Applause] Back in 2017 during the first uh year of Donald Trump's uh presidency, I organized a conference on the crisis of democracy, we invited over 20 speakers, most of whom who viewed right-wing populism as a threat to democratic ideals. Yet, I was adamant about including voices that disagreed, voices that believed that populism could be democratic, productive, and meaningful. One such voice was Mark Youngan, a German philosophy professor and intellectual leader of the anti-immigrant and anti-EU alterna ...