We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city,… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
The presidency is, in many ways, America's comment on itself; our collective national costume. In the occupant of our sole nationwide elected… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
America after Trump may be more like the European Union; a rambling alliance of interstate compacts, rather than the forced marriage of… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things. — Joy Reid Copy Share
If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image. — Joy Reid Copy Share
In many ways, Trump is both a boon and a bane to Republicans. His insanity and moral decrepitude keep the country focused on things… — Joy Reid Copy Share
To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces. — Joy Reid Copy Share
Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after the weary… — Joy Reid Copy Share
Trump's affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified after his… — Joy Reid Copy Share
Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a Republican-led House… — Joy Reid Copy Share
Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile… — Joy Reid Copy Share
Bill Clinton had a hell of a first 24 months, even though he, like Trump, enjoyed a congressional majority. Scandal after scandal befell the… — Joy Reid Copy Share
The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over by federal… — Joy Reid Copy Share
Even without the euphoria of 'yes we can,' Hillary Clinton is to white women what Barack Obama was to African-Americans. She represents the opportunity… — Joy Reid Copy Share
If you've never feared the police - if you don't get a dull ache in the pit of your stomach when you see red… — Joy Reid Copy Share
Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans. — Joy Reid Copy Share
