Man, oh man. This has all the feel of a kind of Last Stand. It's amazing to see people invoking a struggle that stretches back to cotton and chains, simply in pursuit of naked power.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.