I'm Wary but Still Hopeful about Trump

with John McWhorter

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Last year, after the election, I said I was excited about Trump’s election. He was promising a different vision of America that could, I thought, refocus the nation’s attention and resources on fundamental problems, like revitalizing the working class and securing the border. Now that we’ve passed the hundred-day marker, I wouldn’t exactly call myself “excited.” I’m experiencing “trepidation in the extreme,” as I say in this clip from my live appearance with John McWhorter at Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.