This is just amazing. I'm tempted to say "Keep digging." But this is who these people are. They built a party on some of the ugliest impulses of humanity and now they are paying for it. I can not feel sorry for them. I can not be "charitable" to anyone who applauded while this thing was in motion.
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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.