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What about presidents who have used the wedge?

George Bush Sr. who talked about Willie Horton, that portrait of him, the horrific picture

of him they put all over the place. Reagan's talking about young bucks, talking about welfare queens, Bill Clinton with

sister soldier, and these little nuanced things like people who work hard and play by the

rules. It seems like that wedge is very useful politically to get white voters to say, yeah,

I'm with them, I'm not with the others.

Well, without getting into all those specifics, as you know very, very well,

American politics has been defined since the Brown decision, and even before, really,

but particularly since May 1954, by an attempt by politicians to put poor African Americans and brown Americans and poor white Americans pointing at each other instead of pointing up.

Now, what do I always tell you? Thank you, John Meacham, who is a great historian. What have I

always said to you? I have always told you, don't look down. That is not where your problem is coming

from. Your problem is coming from on high. Your problem is coming from the elite and the powerful.

Your problem is coming from selfish, greedy men and politicians like Donald Trump.

It is so completely predictable that Donald Trump would use the race wedge in such an overt manner

so that he can pit poor whites against poor people of color and have us point at each other

instead of pointing up where it's coming from. The tax cut, which was really the only

piece of legislation that Donald Trump was able to pass. It really was the only thing that

Mitch McConnell and the Senate was interested in doing, that in packing the courts, with people

who literally testified out loud under oath that they're not sure if Brown versus the Board

of Education, which desegregated our schools, was rightly decided. Okay, we have people that have been confirmed

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