Ta-Nehisi Coates
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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And I think
It was very, very depressing about that.
And this is, I think, hard for a lot of us to say, but those eight years really broke something in some portion of this country.
And I think we're still under it.
I think you should.
No, I think you should.
He was great, man.
He was great.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't even know how to take that seriously.
I think one of the problems of American politics is that built into the system is this notion that both parties will have some, if at times, tenuous connection to the truth.
And I don't know what you do when half the house has no commitment whatsoever.
Right.
You know what I mean, to the truth.
Like, I think it's a tough system then, you know?
It is, man.
And I will say I'm completely sympathetic to people who, because they have bills to pay, because they have children to raise, because they have, you know, grandparents to take care of.
Like they can't hunt down every fact.
The system depends on some amount of leadership with, and I can't believe I'm going to use this term, but some amount of political virtue of some sort.
if you have a party entirely captured, effectively by reality TV stars, and with the ethics of the form, with the ethics of the form also, that's tough.
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