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An inspiring conversation about democracy

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Legacy of Barack Obama

I think a lot of people forgotten how central this was to his political appeal but he's making an argument about changing American politics right hope and change is a kind of systemic change not just a policy change. And I think more so than almost any politician national level politician recent American history he's offering a theory that tracks much of what we're talking about here. But it also ends in Donald Trump right it and not ends but it leads to Donald Trump rightDonald Trump is a counter reaction among on the right to Obama who again you know could offer an ethic of political friendship to accompany what is a clear and visible and symbolic change in power regimes. He was trying to do that really bending over backwards

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