Friday, September 07, 2018

"The Question Is Why"

"These answers omit the information the other includes. Obama left himself out of his explanation. Shapiro left everything except Obama out of his tweet. But combine them and you get something convincing: Donald Trump capitalized on fears triggered by demographic, technological, economic, social, religious, and civic change, and nothing represented or activated those fears as powerfully as Obama himself."

Ezra Klein at Vox ponders Barack Obama's speech at the University of Illinois.

As does Jonathan Chait at New York.

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