Eddie Glaude: Trump Saying ‘There’s No American Freedom Without American Culture’ Is a ‘Dog Whistle’

RUSH EXCERPT:

GLAUDE: "Well, first of all, I want to reject the idolatry of the state. I don’t think the way in which we grapple with the contradictions at the heart of the country is to retreat into the safety of a storybook version of America, as if our virtue was secured in the beginning, that our innocence is always kind of present because of the divinely sanctioned nature of the experiment. I don’t I’m not interested in loving abstractions, Jacob. I’m interested in loving people close to the ground, the people you describe. Right. And oftentimes when people wrap themselves up in the flag, when they when they express their love of country as this abstraction, it comes in, what comes in tow are these policies that are devastating to everyday, ordinary folk. Juxtapose your opening segment, which was just beautifully put with what Donald Trump said last night in front of Mount Rushmore.”