Thomas Chatterton Williams - "Summer of Our Discontent" - The Daily Show

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“To talk about it only as a matter of identity actually limits our ability to engage non-Black people in the struggle, which is that no American should be OK with law enforcement being able to break somebody, especially a poor person without any resources, the way that they broke George Floyd, whatever color you are.”

Thomas Chatterton Williams, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the forthcoming book, “Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse,” joins Jordan Klepper to discuss his analysis of America’s fall from Obama-era optimism to the division and cynicism of the current Trump administration. He points to factors like America’s “fetishization” of race and identity and liberal missteps in response to the murder of George Floyd in 2020 as a catalyst for this paradigm shift, and describes how aspects of France’s universal approach to identity can help America achieve a more post-racial society.