Anne Applebaum
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2,775 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
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Thanks for having me again.
So I grew up in Washington and a lot of the institutions that we're talking about, the Kennedy Center, the monuments around D.C., the reflecting pool.
These are places I've known all my life and I know how important they are to people who live in the city and to people who visit the city.
And I've been taking people to see them.
for years and years.
And I took kind of generations of children to the Nutcracker Suite.
And I was taken to the Nutcracker Suite at the Kennedy Center at Christmas time.
And watching the president systematically destroy one after the next has, yeah, has probably radicalized me.
You know, the White House was built in a certain style for a certain reason.
It was meant to evoke
Republican, small r, Republican virtues.
It was supposed to be modest.
It wasn't a palace like the palaces in England that the American Revolution had broken away from.
It was classical in design.
It was supposed to evoke
Palladian virtues, you know, this sort of architecture of balance and symmetry.
And by destroying it, by building a monstrosity next door to it, Donald Trump has changed its meaning and changed the way it looks and changed the original intentions of the architect.
And the intentions are related to very deep American values.
And he's imposing a new set of values on them.
And I object.
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