Joy Reid

We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.

— Joy Reid

There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line.

— Joy Reid

The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form…

— Joy Reid

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.

— Joy Reid

Wakanda, in short, is the Africa of black dreams.

— Joy Reid

Trump's cabinet picks seem designed to unwind government itself, leaving the average citizen completely exposed and vulnerable to full exploitation by corporate…

— Joy Reid

If you are a certain kind of white conservative, especially a white male conservative, then Roger Ailes was a hero. He constructed…

— Joy Reid

When I was 15 years old, my sister and I went on a trip to Europe. We went on scholarship because my…

— Joy Reid

Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of…

— Joy Reid

President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural…

— Joy Reid

If politics were a high school movie, Republicans would be the jocks and mean girls locking hapless freshmen inside their lockers and…

— Joy Reid

We are not, in some fundamental ways, a single country. The map of that vast red swatch of states and rural counties…

— Joy Reid

The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism…

— Joy Reid

For decades, the GOP has faithfully served the rich, corporations, polluters and purveyors of pure, unadulterated greed, and brought blue-collar white voters…

— Joy Reid

Authoritarianism doesn't fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in…

— Joy Reid

Trump is an erratic figure - seemingly fragile, consumed by his own unpopularity and desperate to somehow exceed Barack Obama in public…

— Joy Reid

Votes for president have long been a kind of social signifier. People will proudly boast that they voted for JFK; while it's…

— Joy Reid

Trump built Trump Tower using mob concrete, not Bethlehem steel.

— Joy Reid

Whatever its cause, the media's general Hillary Clinton loathing is a foundational truth that would define her as president.

— Joy Reid

Obama has presided over sweeping cultural advances, particularly in the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

— Joy Reid

I always want to be doing something - going somewhere, doing a project, teaching a class, writing an article. I try to…

— Joy Reid

The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of 'you lie'…

— Joy Reid

Who in the GOP would complain if Trump federalizes 'stop and frisk' or encourages its proliferation in states using the power of…

— Joy Reid

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

— Joy Reid

From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most…

— Joy Reid