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The Trumpers Among Us: Katha Pollitt

Plus Eric Foner on Will Smith’s series on the 14th Amendment.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

February 25, 2021

What are we going to do about the 74 million people who voted for Trump? Katha Pollitt has been thinking about that—and about proposals that we should try to find common ground with the 75 percent who have told pollsters they think Trump “definitely” or “probably” won the election.

Also: Historian Eric Foner talks about Will Smith’s six-part Netflix series on the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, which established birthright citizenship and guaranteed equal protection to all “persons”—the series, with a stellar cast, is called Amend.

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