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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

White Identity Politics with Michael Tesler

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Just one week left until the midterms and race and identity politics are playing a major role in the messaging of both parties. For Republicans, it comes in the shape of fear-mongering about the threat imposed by anyone ‘other’, a play ripped directly from the campaign that won Donald Trump the presidency. While these candidates are following in the steps of President Trump, they are tapping in to a divide that was exacerbated not just in the 2016 election, but starting back in 2008. Something profound happened when the country elected Barack Obama, something that took years to fully manifest. Listen to Michael Tesler explain his revelations on racial resentment, economic anxiety, and how it changes the way we think about the 2016 election. Email us at [email protected] Tweet using #WITHpod Read more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening

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0:00.0

Trump is kind of doing for white liberals,

0:02.4

what Obama did for white racial conservatives.

0:05.8

I think that that's a perfect way to put it.

0:07.9

Before Trump, I mean, just to be clear on this, right?

0:09.7

It's like in pre-Trump era,

0:11.9

a person who considers himself fairly liberal

0:13.7

or democratic voter and they're a white person

0:16.7

would be more inclined to be like,

0:18.0

I don't know about this cappernic kneeling thing,

0:20.0

but then it's like you see Donald Trump criticizing

0:22.8

when you're like, I like that Colin cappernic kneels.

0:25.6

Exactly, so I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

0:27.6

I mean, and so what you're getting is two parties

0:30.8

moving further and further apart on race.

0:34.4

Hello and welcome to Wise is happening.

0:39.7

With me, your host, Chris Hayes.

0:43.4

All right, so midterms are coming up fast.

0:47.1

They are a week from today, the day this post.

0:51.1

And one of the things I think that has become a dominant

0:54.2

narrative theme about this stretch of the midterms

0:57.4

is the central role that race and identity

1:00.7

has been playing in the final stretch of the campaign.

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