Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Lasting Wreckage of Trump’s Second Term

On this episode

About this episode

Vanity Fair senior staff writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest column catalogs the sweeping impact that Donald Trump’s second term in office has had on American life and reckons with the profound damage the administration has done to the country’s institutions. Speaking to Mark Guiducci of Vanity Fair, Coates explores how Trump’s shameless behavior and flagrant disregard for norms have made him a “visionary” politician of this era. Why have much of the opposition and so many institutions failed to check the president’s power? “A heritage, a tradition, a legacy is not a thing that just kind of sits there and protects you. It has to be cared for. It has to be improved upon,” says Coates. “Maybe…