Eddie Glaude Gets Emotional: ‘We Don’t Want to Face What We Know We Should Face, and That’s the Monster in the Mirror!’

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GLAUDE JR.: “And part of the problem, Nicolle, is that Trump is easy in our melodramatic framing, right? He’s the villain. He’s easy. What’s difficult is that so many of our fellow Americans buy into this! And the idea of America that they have, the idea of America that is circulating in their minds doesn’t include people like me. It questions folk like Jonathan. It wants to keep women in their place, LGBT, we can go on and on and on, and we haven’t provided an alternative. We keep yearning for something, gone, nostalgic, some older America, some sense of normalcy and we refuse to give an alternative vision to this nonsense! So Trump is easy! The hard part is to put forward a vision of the country that actually responds to what we know is circulating among our — the people we love. I’m just — I’m sorry. I’m trying to wrap my mind around it and it just seems to me that we don’t want to face what we know we should face. And that’s the monster in the mirror. Which is us!”