Votes for president have long been a kind of social signifier. People will proudly boast that they voted for JFK; while it’s harder to find those eager to claim having supported Richard Nixon. Joy Reid Read Quote
Even at its most outrageous early moments, the Tea Party movement was treated to sober and at times breathless media coverage, to the point of being invited to co-host a presidential debate. Joy Reid Read Quote
American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace. Joy Reid Read Quote
The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn’t. Joy Reid Read Quote
The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it. Joy Reid Read Quote
Republicans don’t vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans. Joy Reid Read Quote
There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line. Joy Reid Read Quote
Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics. Joy Reid Read Quote
Authoritarianism doesn’t fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in like a slow tide. Joy Reid Read Quote
