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Trump Is Sabotaging the American Idea

A conversation with Jamil Smith

Jamil Smith is a columnist at The Guardian and a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In this episode, he joins me to discuss what America's upcoming 250th birthday means to us, the latest Supreme Court decisions and their implications, and Trump's obsession with voter suppression.

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Some highlights of my conversation with Jamil Smith

Patriotism is repair. Not revenge. Bigotry sabotages democracy.

Reclaiming the flag. (LANGUAGE WARNING)

Impunity as a governing principle.

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