Susan Glasser
speaker
1,391 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Aug
Susan Glasser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is it the Panama Canal?
And Teddy Roosevelt is saying, oh, no, my thing is about the number of people that I helped.
And to me, that is the incredible difference again.
Roosevelt, the icon of the American Progressive Era movement, the idea that government can constrain rampaging monopolists, rampaging Gilded Age businessmen, the Elon Musks and toxic billionaires of their era.
That's what Roosevelt was about.
Roosevelt was about national parks and conservation and the environment.
He was about the idea that immigrants are teeming into our cities.
We need to create an infrastructure to help them.
This is the moment of the settlement house movement.
Teddy Roosevelt, by the way, an extremely, not only a sort of educated man, a writer, a thinker, in fact, a prolific writer, a prolific reader in so many ways, except for the narcissism.
Right.
You got to give him that, except for the narcissism.
He's about the polar opposite of Donald Trump.
And in particular, because the progressive era was literally about the idea that government can do something and ought to do something to constrain and to work for the people of the country against the moneyed interest, which is the exact opposite, literally, of Donald Trump's sort of kleptocratic, oligarchic view of government.
Favorite Donald Trump clip?
We're revealing something in this podcast, which is unfortunate.
I actually don't know.
Although I do know that Donald Trump does not like animals.
Teddy Roosevelt, a big dog guy, in addition to all sorts of pets.
I think they had more pets at the White House in the Roosevelt presidency than in any other presidency.
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