Hey, listeners, it's Allison. The team at Can He Do That is taking a break over the holidays after a long, wild, and exhausting year. But this feed won't be empty.

Earlier in the year, just before the presidential election, we brought you a special three-part series about the legacy of the past four years of the Trump administration.

And that series dove into our country's hyper-polarization

and how some pieces of the Trump agenda have exacerbated our divides. And that was all before the

election. If you listen to these episodes now with the election behind us, the series reveals what

drove some voter decisions at the polls, and it forecasts some of the debates happening within our political parties today.

Hear more of what this series reveals in hindsight with a fresh listen.

Here's the first episode from late October on Trump and Race.

The United States has long battled with an ugly history around race.

While the nation was founded under the mantra that all men are created equal,

more often than not, the nation's words have not matched its actions.

U.S. presidents historically have often had a heavy hand

in influencing race relations in this country.

Some, like Woodrow Wilson, use the powers of their office to enforce segregation,

while others, like John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower, used executive power to fight against it.

Others have used the bully pulpit to temper racial tension during times of crisis.

The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. It is not our many Arab friends.

I say to you, quite frankly, that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Or to unite the nation under one creed.

For native-born Americans, it means reminding ourselves that the stereotypes about immigrants today

were said almost word for word about the Irish and Italians and Poles, who it was said were going to destroy the fundamental

character of America.

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