Eddie Glaude

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481 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 26 May

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The Bulwark Daily · Eddie Glaude: Don't Let MAGA Own America's 250th Anniversary · 26 May 2026 podcast

The other version is that we're still a sacred project.

We've failed, we've fallen short, but we're always already on the road to a more perfect union.

There's that story.

And then of course,

The founding did everything for us.

So those three versions, right?

But what I want to suggest is that from the very beginning, the divided soul of the country has it that we imagine ourselves as a beacon of freedom and as a white republic.

And that the notion of freedom was articulated from the very beginning, voiced from the very beginning as the possession of white Americans to give and to take away.

And as long as freedom, because you think about, there's an apocryphal story that says that John Adams says to King George in the moment in which he's articulating a notion of liberty, he says to him, we will not be your Negroes.

So at the very moment in which he's giving voice to an idea of freedom, it's based on an intimate understanding of unfreedom.

Or you read Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

He talks about all of this stuff about American civil society and the importance of democracy.

And then he starts the chapter on the three races.

He says, now that I've dealt with all of that, I'm going to turn to this.

And when he starts talking about the three races, he talks about the challenges to everything he just talked about, about American democracy moving before that.

So what I want to suggest is that instead of telling a storybook version of freedom in the country, we need to tell a more tragic story.

One that takes seriously our failings, our shortcomings, that will allow us to grow up as a nation so that we can be true to who we are and imagine ourselves differently instead of finding comfort and security in the myth that tells us that we're always good even when we're not.

That's a great point.

And it reminds me of, I'm going to be an egghead for a moment, a nerd.

It reminds me of a moment, a line in Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche's The Uses and Abuses of History, where he says, we have to cultivate our ability to forget.

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