‘We ought to be pessimistic,’ Cornel West says, ‘We just don’t allow it to have the last word’

Public intellectual Cornel West delivers lecture in Santa Fe, NM about the struggles of humanity's push to rise above evil.

By: Julia Goldberg

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: April 15, 2026

Words: 752

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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President Donald Trump “is not the cause of anything,” philosopher, theologian and former Independent presidential candidate Cornel West said during a recent lecture in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Rather, West said, “He’s a deep sign and symptom of an unbelievable bankruptcy that allows him to have facilitators and their neighbors so that he goes on to engage in his gangster activity.”

West offered his thoughts on the president, whom he also said he would neither …

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