Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yoni Appelbaum on Charlottesville's Aftermath

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🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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After white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of three Americans, President Trump's equivocating responses shocked Republicans and Democrats alike. Did this represent a major breakpoint in American politics? Why have Confederate symbols and ideas suddenly returned to the public sphere, not to mention HBO? And how should Americans comprehend the relationship between these extremist currents and the Trump administration? Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yoni Appelbaum explore these questions with Jeffrey Goldberg, Alex Wagner, and Matt Thompson. For links and other show notes, go here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Neo-Natsies and white supremacists have seized the attention of the United States,
0:05.0	while the President sticks up for the memory of Confederate leaders.
0:08.0	There's hatred and bigotry on many sides, he says.
0:11.0	But whose side is he on this of The Atlantic,
0:35.0	here with me in DC.
0:36.4	I'm Jeffrey Goldberg.
0:37.6	I'm the editor and chief of the Atlantic.
0:39.7	And over there in New York.
0:41.1	Hey, I'm Alex Wagner Wagner contributing editor at The Atlantic.
0:45.0	Excellent.
0:46.6	We have with us our distinguished colleague Tanahasi Coates.
0:51.1	Tanahassee, welcome to the radio-Atlantic table.
0:53.6	Hi guys, thanks for having me.
0:55.0	Welcome.
0:55.8	Why does he sound so shy?
0:58.0	Why does he sound so shy like that?
0:59.6	I always sound like that.
1:00.4	It's been a week, I think.
1:01.7	I think that's probably. It's a, it's been a week. I think that's probably it's a it's been a it's been a week it has been a very big week and a bad week
1:08.4	Over the past few days we've seen a succession of events that have struck many of us as extraordinary.
1:14.0	First, long dreaded sequence of rallies by an assortment of
1:17.4	neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, white supremacist, white nationalists in Charlottesville,
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