Ta-Nehisi Coates

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.

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.