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Untold storie by tim obrien1/15/2024 ![]() Tim O’Brien: I don’t know that anybody could have anticipated the particulars, but you generally knew based on everything that he’s about that he was going to corrupt the office and incite violence on the streets and introduce grotesque civic discourse into the mix. But I want to re-ask that now, in the waning days of the actual presidency of Donald J. This is who he is, this is how he operates, this is what he does. Michael Kruse: In re-reading some of our previous convenings, I was struck by kind of a recurring theme, which is the lack of surprise from all of you. Our conversation has been edited for clarity and length. “Gasoline on the fire,” said Hurt, “whatever chance he can.” “Revenge,” O’Brien said, “will be part of it.” And they again tapped his past to predict his future, sketching a next chapter complicated by legal and financial peril and the disgrace of the end of his tenure in particular-but defined as ever by a deep-seated, moment-to-moment struggle to fight to fill his “bottomless pit of need” while desperately trying to ward off relative irrelevance. Frankenstein, and whether or not they still are not surprised by Trump and the varieties of calamities he wrought. We talked about narcissism and self-loathing and comeuppance and the possibility of a semblance of introspection or personal reckoning, and his father as Dr. Now, with Trump set to exit the Oval Office with the fresh stain of a second impeachment and Joe Biden ready to take his place, I wanted to bring the four of them together for one final time. He was the Trump that was right there all along in the hundreds of pages they wrote. Trump the president was the Trump they knew. The roundtables read like warnings.īarrett, the esteemed dean of the group, died the day before Trump’s inauguration, but O’Brien, Blair, D’Antonio and Hurt told me many times over these last four dizzying and dangerous years that what Trump was doing might have been unprecedented for the country and for the presidency but it wasn’t unprecedented for him. They knew his strengths and his weaknesses, his charisma and his impulsivity, the misogyny and the bigotry, the pathological behaviors, the reasons for them, and what almost always had been the consequences of them-for Trump, but more often, and especially, for the people around him.ĭuring our initial convening that day in Manhattan, and in subsequent conversations- right after the leak of the “Access Hollywood” tape, right after he won, and right before he was inaugurated-they said he’d never accept a loss, that he’d say it was “stolen,” that he’d say it was “rigged.” They said he was “going to plunge the whole country into an authoritarian dynamic.” They said he was “a guy who is playing to a mob.” And no matter what, they said, Trump would retain “a substantial number of Americans who support him, and where he takes them is really quite threatening.” They weren’t clairvoyant-they didn’t think he would win in 2016-but once he did, they had a practically eerily on-the-nose sense of where all this was headed. Wayne Barrett, Harry Hurt III, Gwenda Blair, Tim O’Brien and Michael D’Antonio-authors of books about Trump that were published from the early 1990s to 2015-they … knew. ![]() I think we just need more introspection.In many ways, though, they did. “I talk about mistakes I made all the time. ![]() King? What does it say about this vision we had of Rosa Parks, where everybody knows her and yet even Hollywood celebrities can’t identify this woman who’s called the mother of the movement.” “Who knew Rosa Parks was a fan of the Black Panthers? Who knew Rosa Parks was as much of a fan of Malcolm X as she was of Dr. Why is it essential to dispel the myths and to fully understand the role that strategic organizing played in the actions of Rosa Parks, and the implications for her life, and ours today? Laura welcomes back Soledad for this revealing conversation on Parks, her legacy, and what the media got wrong. The film is also being used to create a curriculum for K-12 students. The film tells a much fuller story of the woman best known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Parks.” based on the book by Jeanne Theoharis, and directed by Yoruba Richen and Johanna Hamilton. Soledad O’Brien, the award-winning journalist and producer, has just executive produced the first ever full-length documentary on the Civil Rights icon, titled “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. ![]() Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure - the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that depiction is what happened before and afterward, which is to say most of the story of Park’s lifetime of activism.
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