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Steven Hahn

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242 total appearances

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The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

And we have to, again, remember that, you know, what happens is they're not only expelled from communities, but they're effectively expelled from political society, because not only don't they have political rights, and they had a fight for whatever civil rights they, you know, do they have a right to sue? Do they have a right to challenge the,

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

And we have to, again, remember that, you know, what happens is they're not only expelled from communities, but they're effectively expelled from political society, because not only don't they have political rights, and they had a fight for whatever civil rights they, you know, do they have a right to sue? Do they have a right to challenge the,

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

structures of power within penitentiaries, I fear that a lot of people would be okay with expelling citizens who are deemed to be true enemies of the people because of their violence or because of their racial and ethnic background. I mean, Trump is racist explicitly now. Explicitly. And whatever the courts do, he's obviously looking to for confrontation.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

structures of power within penitentiaries, I fear that a lot of people would be okay with expelling citizens who are deemed to be true enemies of the people because of their violence or because of their racial and ethnic background. I mean, Trump is racist explicitly now. Explicitly. And whatever the courts do, he's obviously looking to for confrontation.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

He's interested in provocation, and he thinks basically there's nothing much they can do about it, and that may prove to be the case.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

He's interested in provocation, and he thinks basically there's nothing much they can do about it, and that may prove to be the case.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

I do think that what happens is that it's very easy to invoke a notion of communities under siege, being threatened. It reminded me of...

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

I do think that what happens is that it's very easy to invoke a notion of communities under siege, being threatened. It reminded me of...

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

ideas and relationships that could so quickly be reconfigured about belonging and what the, even before the United States became the United States, but what it meant to be part of communities, what rights communities had to exclude or to expel, to punish, and who in many cases desperately tried not to be the other. One of the things we saw is that there were members of

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

ideas and relationships that could so quickly be reconfigured about belonging and what the, even before the United States became the United States, but what it meant to be part of communities, what rights communities had to exclude or to expel, to punish, and who in many cases desperately tried not to be the other. One of the things we saw is that there were members of

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

quote unquote, immigrant groups who supported Trump. And this is part of a long-term phenomenon whereby those who have arrived in established stability, this is true during the Great Migration too, where Northern Black communities were, you know, not all that comfortable with these rural Black people who were coming up who didn't really know the ways and were potentially threatening

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

quote unquote, immigrant groups who supported Trump. And this is part of a long-term phenomenon whereby those who have arrived in established stability, this is true during the Great Migration too, where Northern Black communities were, you know, not all that comfortable with these rural Black people who were coming up who didn't really know the ways and were potentially threatening

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

the stability of their own communities. It's an easy thing to kind of drum up because it has been so much part of the conversation for so long. And I do think that this is exactly what needs to be resisted and reimagined.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

the stability of their own communities. It's an easy thing to kind of drum up because it has been so much part of the conversation for so long. And I do think that this is exactly what needs to be resisted and reimagined.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

Well, I think one of the things that makes him seem so, quote, distinctive and unprecedented is, you know, if we think about the national level, where, you know, there's no question that it would be very difficult to find anybody who has ascended to the presidency and has behaved in the cruel and demeaning, not only to people, but to institutions, to his political enemies.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

Well, I think one of the things that makes him seem so, quote, distinctive and unprecedented is, you know, if we think about the national level, where, you know, there's no question that it would be very difficult to find anybody who has ascended to the presidency and has behaved in the cruel and demeaning, not only to people, but to institutions, to his political enemies.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

But I do think that if one is aware of what has gone on over the course of U.S. history on the state and local levels, George Wallace, certainly the case. And he's somebody I think who's really important, who did become a national figure.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

But I do think that if one is aware of what has gone on over the course of U.S. history on the state and local levels, George Wallace, certainly the case. And he's somebody I think who's really important, who did become a national figure.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

And I don't know what would have happened if it wasn't for the assassin's bullet in 1972, which basically pushed him out of a race that he was in the process of maybe winning. But, you know, you think about a world that was organized around slavery and the personal domination of people who were enslavers.

The Ezra Klein Show
The Very American Roots of Trumpism

And I don't know what would have happened if it wasn't for the assassin's bullet in 1972, which basically pushed him out of a race that he was in the process of maybe winning. But, you know, you think about a world that was organized around slavery and the personal domination of people who were enslavers.