Ta-Nehisi Coates
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893 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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The challenges feel such that I don't know that we have another option.
In other words, look, I understand that the conservative instinct, and to some extent, I share it myself.
Look, what I don't want, A, is for another 9-11, and B, for another 9-11 where we stand around and look at each other and say, why would someone do this to us?
You know, I feel that we are doing things in the world and we are empowering things and we are empowering forces in the world that endanger us and endanger humanity.
If everything Barack Obama said is true about the positive aspects of America, that, you know, people follow us and all of that.
What is eight years of Trump done then?
Because the inverse of that is true, too.
You know, what is, you know, that, you know, long history that, you know, I tried to outline an article.
What did it do?
What has it seeded in the world?
And you don't need to believe that the United States of America is somehow a uniquely evil power to grapple with that.
It doesn't require that.
But.
I don't know how we have a future going like, like pinning our entire lives.
It feels like every four years around these presidential elections, like I, it doesn't feel like a good long-term plan.
Can we back up?
No, no, no, no.
Actually, the problem is not that.
I'll tell you what the problem is.
Don't talk about human beings as diseases.
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