Robert Reich: United States Was Founded on Rejection of ‘the State Is Me’ Idea

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REICH: “I don’t think so either. I think there was a revolution 250 years ago about exactly that principle. I mean, Louis the 14th, whether, you know, he said the state is me. Well, that’s not what we have in the United States. And we don’t have, you know, George the first or George the third. We don’t have a king. We have a society in which we want the person who is the president to be like George Washington. Humility, humility, humility. That’s the word that Washington used repeatedly and has been used by historians about Washington. He didn’t want his name everywhere. He didn’t want his face everywhere. He didn’t want his his name emblazoned anywhere. In fact, when people talked about making a monument to him, he said, no, no, please. He wanted to get out of the presidency after, what was it, eight years? He said, because this should not be a kingship. This is not what we’re about. Donald Trump needs to remember, needs to read, read history,”