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 former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, and The Water Dancer.