Joy Reid

Today, in Virginia, the Trumpy new governor, Glenn Youngkin, kicked off his new anti-mask optional mandate, a mandate that seven school boards are suing to stop.

The conservative majority`s rejection of that request was, frankly, a cowardly, weaselly way to endorse the ban, which means that Texas women are still unable to exercise their legal right to choose.

This was a coup. Anybody that doesn`t think that it`s a coup is a kook.

So far, what Trump in this group of cohorts have elected to do is to basically show the American people that you don`t have to comply with these congressional subpoenas.

You could elect five -- you want to know what would really piss Republicans off in the Senate and make Mitch McConnell mad? Put five black senators in there.

President Biden and Vice President Harris are heading to the battleground state of Georgia tomorrow to push for voting rights protections.

In order to understand Ron Johnson, you need to listen to people like Vicki McKenna because that’s who he listens to.

I call upon every one of us to recommit to our democracy, to the protection and the lifting of our precious democracy against the lies of someone like Donald Trump, who only seeks authoritarian power.

And their party, the Republicans have gone from pretending to be the party of personal responsibility to unmasking themselves as the party of selfish people who cannot play well with others.

The U.S. officially became a declining democracy in 2021 both because of the Trump coup attempt and because a large chunk of one of our two major political parties, the Republicans, essentially dropped its support for democracy in favor of…

They have failed utterly their job as this -- delineated by the Constitution to protect the most vulnerable. They only want to protect the rich, the powerful, the corporations, the religious extremists.

Thank God for Sonia Sotomayor, who is the conscience of that body, but they have failed us.