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Ta-Nehisi Coates

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
479 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

who is just determined, you know, to become a tyrant or determined to just violate, you know what I mean?

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

And who's elected.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

You can't really design a system that, you know, is foolproof.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

You know, because he was saying, you know, he had come from this space of thinking of the Constitution as this, you know, great genius document, you know, emanating out of the American people and all of this.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

But what he had taken over his years was that really is actually quite hard to design a system.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

that is invulnerable to the kind of things that Trump is doing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

Now, the Department of Homeland Security made it easier, I would say, but to make it completely, it's extremely hard to do.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

Some of this is not about rules, man.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

I don't know why more people don't talk to him.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

I mean, he was just so wise, and you know what I mean?

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

He was so free.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

I mean, if we start at one place, because I didn't expect to talk about this whole thing about constitutionality and how he himself had changed, which was very, very interesting because he didn't go into the interview and say,

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

ha, ha, ha, I was right.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

You know, all these other people were wrong.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

I mean, you know, he told the truth about what happened.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

But then he said, listen, I'm just going to tell you, even I did not foresee it going this far.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

Like, you don't, like, paint it like I knew, like, Trump was going to happen.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

I did not.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

I did not.

The Bulwark Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics

And, you know, one of the stories that we did get in that article was that he talked about how โ€“ and I just โ€“