Joy Reid Needs to Chill

Denis in Boston
4 min readJun 9, 2021
The populat host of “The Reidout,” Joy Reid. Source MSNBC.

I love Joy Reid. I love her show on MSNBC, “The Reidout”. I love the way she focuses on long neglected stories like those dealing with white supremacy and other topics the majoritarian press covers from arm’s length. But her approach to the rising heat of the culture wars stoked by the GOP is, I fear, a losing strategy.

It’s not that she’s wrong when she notes the dire condition of our Democracy with so many state…

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Denis in Boston

Used to write a lot more about science, tech, econ, politics etc. I spend my time reading and painting with exercise for good measure. Looking for more.