Ta-Nehisi Coates: Trump has 'taken the mask off' the GOP

Ta-Nehisi Coates has compared the MAGA movement to the "redeemers" who ended Reconstruction and reasserted white supremacy. He tells Ali Velshi that "Trump just lit the flame" on "latent racism" in the GOP, and he's "optimistic" seeing the resistance Americans have demonstrated.

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