Gerald Butts
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1,669 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Um, you know, well not Bill Clinton, they're the same age, but you get my point.
But what I really worry about is these dark strains in American
life, the imperialism, the Monroe Doctrine, the monkeying around in Latin America and South America, the extraterritorial ambitions to influence politics in other places.
These are things that were
part of American, the dark side of American foreign policy for a long, long time, arguably from the beginning of the country.
And it's in particular in this hemisphere, it's always been stained with that uh creepy racial overtone where the um uh and even presidents I like and admire like Teddy Roosevelt, uh, he was all over this, you know.
There was a whole strain of his movement that wanted to create a slave holding, uh recreate a slave holding state, uh superstate in Latin America.
And
I guess people like Roosevelt were always able to keep a lid on it.
But man, it's that great line from Shakespeare that uh hell is empty because all the demons are here.
It feels like that's what's happened to the United States.
Like all of the worst instincts in American history are now reborn in this Trump movement.
I think they think he's an autocrat.
I think that they think he's
uh trying to turn the United States into a totalitarian state.
Uh but I think the person I hear him compared to uh amongst Europeans in private
way more frequently than uh a Nazi is uh
Vladimir Putin.
Just the craven.
uh self dealing, the enrichment, the intimidation of enemies, the
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