until white men have the fortitude to speak out against this behavior, nothing will change. i think those three points summaryize where we are. it s a dark place. we have been to darker places. the people of the country are why we rise up. this is the kind of behavior and rhetoric and tone and tactic that the president is using today as president of the united states. used while he was a businessman and on the come pain trail. and using today. the reality is a lot of people who voted for him knew what they were getting when they voted. and he won anyway. it doesn t make it right or good. that s the reality. i m glad adam pointed out that this is what he s describing in the piece is it s a very good, very well written piece. it shines a light on a really
where 53,000 voter registration, many of them african-american folks were frozen by the attorney general himself, a candidate for governor against the democrats there astay abrams. kemp, he ordered the registrations held because of slight problems with their paperwork. what is going on here, do you think? well, look, this is a country where we make it exceedingly hard to vote. we do that because historically the country of the united states of america has not wanted black people or poor people to vote. so they ve thrown up obstacles. no other country in the world does this. no other country deliberately makes it hard to vote or throws all these weird mechanics in there where you might end up disenfranchised on election day because you didn t dot an i or cross a t. this is a feature not a bug. what year is it? it s a couple years where john robert and the supreme court struck down the voters right act. as soon as that happened, it was open season. look, this is a historical
senators to stormy daniels. from gold stars to candidates wives. separated immigrant children from parents at the border: the pattern is cruelty. let s discuss now. her latest book is called gaslighting america. why we love it when trump lies to us. good evening, everyone. adam. this is as nating column here. fascinating column here. in atlantic magazine talking about the cruelty with e see in trumps and support es. you wrote. trumps only true skill is the con. his only fundamental belief is the united states is the birthright of straight, white, chris man men. and only real awe thennic pleasure is in cruelty. it is that cruelty and the delight it brings them that bind his supporters to him. and shares scorn for those they hate and fear. immigrants, black voters. feminists and treasonous white
leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. president trump that has hurled insults to everyone. he has separated immigrant children from their parents at the border. the pattern here, cruelty. let s discuss now. adam is here, alice, barri and amanda. good evening, everyone. so, adam, this is a fascinating column here. let me just read something that you said. it s in the atlantic magazine, by the way, talking about the cruelty we see in president trump s and his supporters.
specific subset of trump voters. and i think that anybody who has ever been the new kid at a school knows how this works. everybody gangs up on you. they re mean to you and they become closer friends and you re the person on the outside. and it s basically that dynamic only it s in national politics. it s something that s embedded in human nature, but until until now we haven t had a politician who revels in exploiting that part of human nature. and i think it s taking the country to a dark place. adam hits the nail on the head. it reminded me of two words that you see a lot on the internet, and that s liberal tears. like, there s a whole genre of conservative infoaiinment people are trying to make liberals scream and cry. and they laugh about it, right? liberal tears. they laugh as they drink it. the cruelty is the point of that. and it really has gone mainstream in a way that s bigger than the people that just