Welcome to Current Affairs.

My name is Nathan Robinson.

I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine,

and it is our great privilege today to be joined by Randy Weingarten,

one of America's foremost labor leaders who has served as elected president of the American Federation of Teachers since 2008,

where she leads 1.8 million educators, healthcare professionals, and public sector workers.

She is also the author of the new book, Why Fascists, Fear, Teachers, Public Education, and the Future of Democracy,

and also one of, according to, Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's former Secretary of State,

said of Randy Weingarten, this is just an incredible quote that I think you might want to even have as a blurb on this book.

I get asked, who's the most dangerous person in the world? Is it

Chairman Kim? Is it Xi Jinping? The most dangerous person in the world is Randy Winegarten,

and it's not a close call. That's according to Mike Pompeo, so I'm a little, a little terrified to have

Randy Wygotten on the program today. Welcome to the most dangerous woman in the world,

Randy Whitegerton. Thank you, Nathan. It's kind of sort of shocking that he would think a teacher

is the most dangerous person in the world, but that's what we live with.

But it isn't shocked. I mean, this is the thing I think that comes out of the book, right,

is that it isn't actually shocking. That you might, when you hear that, you might go like,

well, Mike Popper, that's nuts, right? These are the heads of nuclear armed powers and you're

the head of the teachers, you know, you're a former public school teacher and you're the head of the teachers.

You're, you know, you're a public school teacher and you like, you know, want to make sure that teachers have like a decent living.

Get paid appropriately.

So, so let me ask you then.

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