PhotoThis is just a guess, but the pre-inaugural programming that is all over television at the moment feels as if it might go largely unwatched. Some of them are from the same chattering class that failed to grasp the rise of Mr. Trump in the first place. As for the ordinary Americans who put Mr. Trump in the White House, we hear them mostly in deranged-sounding clips that only reinforce the easy stereotypes about them. This program hasn’t, and places it in the context of the growing schism that ultimately made Mr. Obama a divider rather than a uniter. The CNN program, Wednesday night, is the better of the two, capturing a lot of honesty as it follows staff members in the Obama White House during their final days.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2017 22:11 UTC