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: Obama's Legacy in a Trump World · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

If he does listen to this show, I know he's probably tired of me saying this over and over.

But he said he said, look, Trump can't win.

He said the American people, he said they go for like they are generally, you know, a people who prefer an optimism.

you know, in their candidates, you know, Nixon aside, you know, and so I just don't, he just didn't see it as a possibility.

Maybe for instance, you know, and this argument has been made before, instead of Merrick Garland, you get a Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination, right?

Or Tim.

Tim, even if you don't get it through, even if you don't, it becomes a rallying cry.

You know what I mean?

People who, you know, maybe are not, you know, as activated, become aggravated by this thing, you know?

And I just think his way was, can I find the candidate or can I find the nominee who the people that hate my guts will accept?

And I just, I don't know that he ever just understood that.

the extent to which he was loathed by the opposition party, and how active and how powerful that hatred was.

I mean, you know, I think I want to, like, what shall I give?

I think, like, one has to be sympathetic, first of all.

to the work of electoral politics, right.

And to the position of a president.

And so, and like, this is what I'm, you know, was kind of alluding to earlier, like his politics can't be my politics and be who he is.

It just can't, you know, he can't get up there and say what I think.

And I don't have that expectation either, by the way, you know, like I just, so on some level, I guess I understand the politics of saying things that way.

I am compelled to also say in my role, did the past, and I'm speaking very conservatively here, did the past 10 years of the Republican Party not happen?

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