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 Bulwark Daily · Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

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

Some of this is not about rules, man.

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

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

He was so free.

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,

ha, ha, ha, I was right.

You know, all these other people were wrong.

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

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

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

I did not.

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

This is so sad to me, but it's true.

He said, you know, as part of his duties as a senator every year, he would go to every county in Wisconsin and he would hold these town meetings.

And he said, you know, sometimes people come out, they would disagree.

And, you know, sometimes those people would get booed by his supporters and he would tell his supporters, no, let him talk.

And, you know, but it never really got nasty.

And he said as soon as Obama won, before he was even sworn in, it immediately, immediately degraded.

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