American Amnesia with Tressie McMillan Cottom

美国健忘症与特蕾西·麦克米伦·科顿

What Now? with Trevor Noah

2025-03-27

53 分钟
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Tressie McMillan Cottom is back on the podcast. Tressie, Trevor, and Christiana discuss Donald Trump’s Tesla infomercial at the White House, the psychology of the American voter, and why so many of us unwittingly vote for candidates whose views are actually the opposite of ours. The three also explore our tendency to not appreciate what we have until it’s gone, and how that ties into America’s current war on women.
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  • A lot of politicians, if they're accusing like the Pelosi or the Clinton class,

  • really don't know what ordinary people are feeling, right?

  • And for some reason, he's able to be tuned in on the culture wars in ways that like surprised me.

  • He's chronically online.

  • Yes, he is.

  • I was just about to say, let me tell you what the through line is for me.

  • I would say about 80 percent of this for me.

  • And I'm like you.

  • I've spent a lot, a lot,

  • a lot of time thinking about this and kind of like holding that voter up in like perverse fascination,

  • like what's happening there.

  • And I do think your point gets at it, Trevor,

  • which is I'm not sure that understand is the right word.

  • I don't think you need to understand to act.

  • Yeah.

  • To be able to observe something accurately doesn't mean you diagnose it properly.

  • Yes, that's what I mean.

  • Right.

  • He is the only politician out there right now who says a thing is a thing.

  • Thank you.