Here I am this morning on NPR. The thing that grates me here is that Rush is basically trying to push Harry Reid to show a kind of political courage which he himself could not show in 2004. It's pretty amazing.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.