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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I don't think that's that that was really possible for him.
He could imagine, you know, Trump winning and then Trump winning again, too.
You know, I mean, maybe by 24, he could imagine it happening again.
But I certainly think the first time, you know, he just he just.
I think he did not see the vulnerability of it.
It's so much harder to build things than it is to destroy things.
And, you know, Trump excels at destroying.
Doge was easy.
That's easy.
You know, you win the presidency, you bring somebody in, you know what I mean, to destroy.
No, he didn't.
It's not easy to save money, but I never took that as the intent.
You know what I mean?
I never took that as the true intent.
of those to begin with, but Obamacare is hard.
Whatever you think of it, that was hard.
You know what I mean?
Pulling together a consensus to, you know, help and build something that's going to be enduring that that's really, really hard.
And I think, um, I just don't think there was an appreciation of how easily, you know, things can be rolled back.
Like, I guess the reason why this strikes me is because when I was working on a profile of him at the end of the presidency, like, you know, he said, you know, and I'm sorry to keep mentioning this.
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