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 Copy Share Image
It is uncomfortable in the extreme for people, and particularly for members of the press, to confront the notion that a president could be so far outside the bounds of tradition that he must be treated differently from his predecessors. — 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
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
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 Image
