Jelani Cobb

The other, however, is that the thing that I think Trump has done more masterfully than probably any other modern American politician is the ability to own both sides of an issue and the ability to operate with particular kinds of wedges.

And so for African-American men whose voting behavior had been more predictable based upon their race, all of a sudden it became clear that there were gender ideas and the very masculinist dynamics of the Trump movement appealed to a certain portion of that population. I think people saw the same thing with Latino male voters too. And so it is a kind of

And so for African-American men whose voting behavior had been more predictable based upon their race, all of a sudden it became clear that there were gender ideas and the very masculinist dynamics of the Trump movement appealed to a certain portion of that population. I think people saw the same thing with Latino male voters too. And so it is a kind of

And so for African-American men whose voting behavior had been more predictable based upon their race, all of a sudden it became clear that there were gender ideas and the very masculinist dynamics of the Trump movement appealed to a certain portion of that population. I think people saw the same thing with Latino male voters too. And so it is a kind of

house of cards in terms of like the structure of all of it. Once you start pulling at how people understand their interests, this doesn't add up. But Trump is a master salesman. The idea is that you don't really think about what you've bought until you've left the store. And by that point, it's too late.

house of cards in terms of like the structure of all of it. Once you start pulling at how people understand their interests, this doesn't add up. But Trump is a master salesman. The idea is that you don't really think about what you've bought until you've left the store. And by that point, it's too late.

house of cards in terms of like the structure of all of it. Once you start pulling at how people understand their interests, this doesn't add up. But Trump is a master salesman. The idea is that you don't really think about what you've bought until you've left the store. And by that point, it's too late.

You know, if a president says something like that, people should reasonably take it seriously.

You know, if a president says something like that, people should reasonably take it seriously.

You know, if a president says something like that, people should reasonably take it seriously.

And even if this doesn't come from the federal level, in which we'd run into a lot of First Amendment complications at the very least, it sets a tone in which a person might well become the subject of digital harassment or in-person harassment, or they may find pressure placed upon their employers in various kinds of ways. And so we've seen this over the course of the years, if you remember,

And even if this doesn't come from the federal level, in which we'd run into a lot of First Amendment complications at the very least, it sets a tone in which a person might well become the subject of digital harassment or in-person harassment, or they may find pressure placed upon their employers in various kinds of ways. And so we've seen this over the course of the years, if you remember,

And even if this doesn't come from the federal level, in which we'd run into a lot of First Amendment complications at the very least, it sets a tone in which a person might well become the subject of digital harassment or in-person harassment, or they may find pressure placed upon their employers in various kinds of ways. And so we've seen this over the course of the years, if you remember,

The anti-CRT hysteria, critical race theory, which just a few years ago turned every school board meeting in the country into the Hunger Games, practically, or WWE, where people were concerned that their children were being indoctrinated with ideas that really were not being taught in elementary and junior high schools in this country.

The anti-CRT hysteria, critical race theory, which just a few years ago turned every school board meeting in the country into the Hunger Games, practically, or WWE, where people were concerned that their children were being indoctrinated with ideas that really were not being taught in elementary and junior high schools in this country.

The anti-CRT hysteria, critical race theory, which just a few years ago turned every school board meeting in the country into the Hunger Games, practically, or WWE, where people were concerned that their children were being indoctrinated with ideas that really were not being taught in elementary and junior high schools in this country.

Everyone is trying to figure that out. I'm at my own institution daily, and I'm in contact with scholars from around the country, and everyone is trying to figure this out. So affirmative action has been ended by the Supreme Court, and there's a significant Venn overlap between affirmative action and DEI, but they're not necessarily the same thing. Explain that.

Everyone is trying to figure that out. I'm at my own institution daily, and I'm in contact with scholars from around the country, and everyone is trying to figure this out. So affirmative action has been ended by the Supreme Court, and there's a significant Venn overlap between affirmative action and DEI, but they're not necessarily the same thing. Explain that.

Everyone is trying to figure that out. I'm at my own institution daily, and I'm in contact with scholars from around the country, and everyone is trying to figure this out. So affirmative action has been ended by the Supreme Court, and there's a significant Venn overlap between affirmative action and DEI, but they're not necessarily the same thing. Explain that.

So one of the parts of inclusion would be like, if we say that we don't have enough African-American or enough Latino engineers, well, we're going to create a pipeline program in high schools that... have significant numbers of Hispanic or African-American students and say, would you like to be an engineer? Well, this is a voluntary thing and it's giving people access to something.