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EPISODE · Jan 18, 2026 · 43 MIN

S1E7 - Is a Trump Presidency On-brand for America?

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I pose this question because President Donald Trump’s second term has been a manic cycle of corruption, greed, and cruelty. So much so, that many Americans have been shocked into thinking that this is unlike any presidency in US history. But I am reminded of the wisdom of James Baldwin in Notes of a Native Son. Mr Baldwin said that “the past is all that makes the present coherent”, and America’s past makes clear that President Trump’s anti-black racism and nativism – animosity aimed at perceptions of alien contamination by minority and immigrant groups – are well known to American history. Said differently, Donald Trump’s ilk of white man is not new to the presidency. So please take a brief walk with me as America’s past makes our present coherent.  To understand why Trump’s hate is on-brand for the presidency we will briefly look at race through the eyes of Presidential giants George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. Then, we’ll see racism in public policy by looking at the immigration policies of, again, President’s Jefferson and Lincoln and Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I pose this question because President Donald Trump’s second term has been a manic cycle of corruption, greed, and cruelty. So much so, that many Americans have been shocked into thinking that this is unlike any presidency in US history. But I am reminded of the wisdom of James Baldwin in Notes of a Native Son. Mr Baldwin said that “the past is all that makes the present coherent”, and America’s past makes clear that President Trump’s anti-black racism and nativism – animosity aimed at perceptions of alien contamination by minority and immigrant groups – are well known to American history. Said differently, Donald Trump’s ilk of white man is not new to the presidency. So please take a brief walk with me as America’s past makes our present coherent.  To understand why Trump’s hate is on-brand for the presidency we will briefly look at race through the eyes of Presidential giants George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. Then, we’ll see racism in public policy by looking at the immigration policies of, again, President’s Jefferson and Lincoln and Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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