Radio War Nerd EP173—Nigeria Elections & Democracy's Decline

Guest: Joe Costello, author & political consultant Recorded: March 16, 2019 First, the War Nerd and Ames discuss the Christchurch mosque shootings, which took place about a day before recording this episode . . . At 39:30 the Nerd and Ames are joined by guest Joe Costello, who recently returned from a months-long stint in Lagos as a campaign advisor to opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who just lost the presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari . . . Joe takes us through his own career in democratic politics, starting with Ted Kennedy's insurgent campaign against Jimmy Carter in 1980, through Jerry Brown's 1992 campaign, the death of his old friend Pat Caddell, and discusses all the ways democratic politics are failing around the globe . . . Buy Joe Costello's book Of, By, For: The New Politics of Money, Debt & Democracy. Download Joe's latest work "The Politics of Technology". Follow Joe on Twitter.