Ta-Nehisi Coates

Look, the one thing I will say about this administration and the one good thing I can say is, look, they're true believers.

They believe this stuff.

You know, some of this is, you know, content.

Yes, some of this is, you know, spectacle.

They really believe it.

I mean, with the exception of maybe J.D.

Vance and, you know, maybe there's other opportunists, you know, like him who have no core beliefs.

But, you know, somebody like, you know, Stephen Miller.

I mean, these people, like, they believe in this glorious...

or this homeland that they want restored.

Trump believes that.

And so you have to take them seriously, I think, as true believers.

This is not a distraction.

This is the world they want.

Yeah, I think it's pretty bad.

I think it's pretty bad.

And let's say, look, like I say, the worst thing that we think is going to happen or we suspect might happen in the midterms doesn't happen.

It's bad to groundlessly sow skepticism.

of like the electoral system in people's minds.

You know, again, like people who are just kind of, you know, going through their day, it's bad to feed them this stuff.