Joy Reid is the latest high-profile Democrat to announce she’s leaving the party. During an appearance on The Breakfast Club on Tuesday, Reid explained that she’s “barely hanging on” even though “I’ve been a Democrat since I was old enough to vote.”
“I’m not willing to ‘cede the country to Trumpism and MAGA simply because I’m clinging to this party,” she said. “The party is not bigger than the future of my kids. You know what I mean? I have three children. I have a daughter and two sons that have to live in this country as Black people – and fascism don’t work for me.”
Reid said the Democrats are too “orderly” and they prioritize who’s up next while ignoring younger leaders like AOC and Jasmine Crockett.
“What the Democrats do wrong is that they prioritize whose turn it is,” she said. “Democrats are very orderly. They’re almost too orderly for fascism.”
Reid said she’s become fed up with the way the Democratic party operates.
She’s the most recent prominent Democrat to announce she’s leaving the party.
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Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced she was cutting ties with the Democratic Party earlier this month. Jean-Pierre is registering as an independent.
Reid didn’t find fault with Jean-Pierre’s surprising decision.
“People getting all mad at Karine Jean-Pierre for saying she’s” done with the party, Reid said Tuesday, “I’m not mad at that because at this point, who cares what the party label is? Give me an effective fighter. If Jasmine Crockett is the most effective fighter, give me Jasmine Crockett. And I really don’t care what you have to move around or who you have to disappoint in order to give me her. Just give me her because we need a leader.”
“You have to blow up the whole Democratic Party,” Reid continued. “I feel like the Democrats need a whole new ideology, because they lost to that. So what does it say about them? You got to just blow it all up. There’s nothing to be said from anybody in that old regime.”
Joy Reid is the latest high-profile Democrat to announce she’s leaving the party. During an appearance on The Breakfast Club on Tuesday, Reid explained that she’s “barely hanging on” even though “I’ve been a Democrat since I was old enough to vote.”
“I’m not willing to ‘cede the country to Trumpism and MAGA simply because I’m clinging to this party,” she said. “The party is not bigger than the future of my kids. You know what I mean? I have three children. I have a daughter and two sons that have to live in this country as Black people – and fascism don’t work for me.”
Reid said the Democrats are too “orderly” and they prioritize who’s up next while ignoring younger leaders like AOC and Jasmine Crockett.
“What the Democrats do wrong is that they prioritize whose turn it is,” she said. “Democrats are very orderly. They’re almost too orderly for fascism.”
Reid said she’s become fed up with the way the Democratic party operates.
She’s the most recent prominent Democrat to announce she’s leaving the party.
Getty Images for American Ballet Theatre
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced she was cutting ties with the Democratic Party earlier this month. Jean-Pierre is registering as an independent.
Reid didn’t find fault with Jean-Pierre’s surprising decision.
“People getting all mad at Karine Jean-Pierre for saying she’s” done with the party, Reid said Tuesday, “I’m not mad at that because at this point, who cares what the party label is? Give me an effective fighter. If Jasmine Crockett is the most effective fighter, give me Jasmine Crockett. And I really don’t care what you have to move around or who you have to disappoint in order to give me her. Just give me her because we need a leader.”
“You have to blow up the whole Democratic Party,” Reid continued. “I feel like the Democrats need a whole new ideology, because they lost to that. So what does it say about them? You got to just blow it all up. There’s nothing to be said from anybody in that old regime.”
