Welcome to Democracy-ish. I'm Torre.

And I'm Danielle Moody.

And we got a special guest this week, Adam Serwer. Say hi, Adam.

Hey, how's it going? Thanks for having me.

I wanted to have Adam on after I read yet another of his brilliant pieces. They're always brilliant.

Thank you.

In the Atlantic. The coronavirus, it's titled,

the coronavirus was an emergency

until Trump found out who was dying.

Yeah.

And part of me has been wondering,

is it kind of a,

there's clearly a shift of like,

you know, he called it a hoax and then he was kind

of worried about it for a little while even though he was still on the nothing to see here tip

and then it was definitely like the cure cannot be worse than the problem we have to get back to

work and a lot of people started saying like you you know, that shift happened, almost the moment

that we started to realize, you know, statistically, that black and brown people were suffering

and dying from this far at far greater rates than white people. And Adam's piece really nails that

down in a more intelligent way than anything else I've seen.

And part of it you bring in this Charles Mills notion of the racial contract.

Can you just unpack the racial contract before we get to the beat of the piece?

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