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Tressie McMillan Cottom - Identity Politics and the 2024 Election | The Daily Show

2024-11-07 Comedy
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Award-winning author, sociologist, UNC professor, and New York Times opinion columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom sits down with Desi Lydic to unpack the outcome of the presidential election. They discuss Trump feeding on American anxieties, his simple and relatable story of empty hope, accepting identity politics as American politics, Trump as the embodiment of our masculinity crisis, and how Democrats can avoid playing the blame game and make peace with their voters’ identities and beliefs. #DailyShow #Trump #Election #President Subscribe to The Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Daily Show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailyshow Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: http://www.paramountplus.com/thedailyshow Follow Comedy Central: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ComedyCentral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comedycentral About The Daily Show: Jon Stewart and The Best F**king News Team host The Daily Show, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program analyzing the biggest stories in news, politics, and culture through a sharp, satirical lens. The Daily Show redefined the late night show category on TV and, with an audience of over 51M across social media platforms, has become a launching pad for some of the biggest stars in entertainment. The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central.

Top Comments (10)

@whatsupdate 2024-11-07

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” -Carl Sagan

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@ahilal8003 2024-11-07

That's every narcissist's gift. Knowing what others are striving for, yearning, in order to make use of it and profit.

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@thaumatomane 2024-11-07

This reminds me of an insightful line that Contrapoints wrote in 2018: "In history there are ages of reason and there are ages of spectacle, and it’s important to know which you’re in. Our America, our Internet, is not ancient Athens. It’s Rome. And your problem is you think you’re in the forum, when you’re really in the circus."

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@ramdarass 2024-11-07

This “wow.” guy in the audience at 5:10 and again at 5:23 says it all.

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@peach4044 2024-11-08

“When I’m not feeling generous, I’ll go with that one” - what a brilliantly polite way to acknowledge someone’s overly pessimistic view while pivoting towards something more constructive. I’ll have to remember that one. Useful.

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@jonathans.9488 2024-11-07

Nailed it.

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@dexterosity 2024-11-07

That was one of the best interview I have ever watched. Tressie put that beautifully. I'm a fan. She is wow.

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@jojowiththeflow 2024-11-08

Profession McMillan Cottom is a gift (and one I feel I do not deserve). Each time I hear her speak or read something she has written I feel I am learning.

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@ninadaly7639 2024-11-07

I love that! “I went to school too long to be hopeful!”

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@andreyshishkin8617 2025-03-22

Oh, what a guest! I’ve never heard her before, but it is really brilliant!

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