Joy Reid

Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and…

— 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

Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after…

— 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

America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around…

— 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

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

— 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

In many ways, Trump is both a boon and a bane to Republicans. His insanity and moral decrepitude keep the country focused…

— Joy Reid

Trump, who in his own history as a developer preferred mob concrete and Chinese steel to the variety produced in the Rust…

— 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

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

— Joy Reid

After Trump, how can we credibly say that our process for choosing a national leader yields the best possible result, or even…

— Joy Reid

For millions of Americans who happen to be black or brown, that core bond of trust with the government that governs closest…

— Joy Reid

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go…

— Joy Reid

As a media consultant to Republican presidents, Ailes proved a deft manipulator of racial fear. But it was in building Fox News…

— Joy Reid

Trump's affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified…

— 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

It is uncomfortable in the extreme for people, and particularly for members of the press, to confront the notion that a president…

— Joy Reid

If you've never feared the police - if you don't get a dull ache in the pit of your stomach when you…

— Joy Reid

Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance…

— 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

America after Trump may be more like the European Union; a rambling alliance of interstate compacts, rather than the forced marriage of…

— 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

Even without the euphoria of 'yes we can,' Hillary Clinton is to white women what Barack Obama was to African-Americans. She represents…

— Joy Reid

The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over…

— 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

It sounds terribly cynical, but the real surprise in the Philando Castile case is not that the officer was acquitted but that…

— Joy Reid

For many Americans - many humans - Trump's presidency can often feel unbearable.

— Joy Reid

Trumpists want a return to a white, Christian America.

— Joy Reid

Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.

— Joy Reid

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

— Joy Reid

The abuse of congressional power for pure partisan gain has become a specialty of the GOP.

— Joy Reid

Trump is reviled around the world, as is the U.S. under his leadership.

— Joy Reid

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

— Joy Reid

Trump has humbled our country under the shadow of China's autocrat Xi Jinping.

— Joy Reid

Our love of Hollywood-style glamour helped elect two presidents: JFK and Reagan, who fulfilled the prophecy that a country so enamored of…

— 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

Trump's real Achilles heel, and the thing most likely to keep him out of the White House, is his brazen contempt for…

— Joy Reid

American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most…

— Joy Reid