Sarah Longwell
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678 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
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And one of the things, it's one of the reasons I'm optimistic, though, is I do think that people contain both multitudes and sort of light and dark.
And I do this thing in the book, it's maybe a little cheesy, but I don't care, I'm going to live and die by it, about this Native American parable where the grandfather's talking to his grandson, and he's like, grandson, inside each of us, there are two wolves.
And there's the good wolf, which is, you know...
light and truth and everything brave and whatever.
And then there's the bad wolf and it's avarice and greed and everything terrible.
And they're always in tension.
They're always fighting.
And the grandson says, well, which one wins?
And he says, the one you feed.
And the idea of leadership is about saying, and it's the same thing, it's the Federalist Papers.
If men were angels, we wouldn't need government.
It's the better angels of our nature.
It's the devil and the angel on your shoulder.
This is the human condition.
And leadership is there,
to try and draw out the better angels of our nature.
And Donald Trump's, literally his political mission is to do the opposite.
He has been feeding the bad wolf for a decade.
And so you can feel people struggle, right?
You can feel people saying,
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