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

It was initially approved because the 150th anniversary was held in Philly, just like the centennial.

So you have the exposition.

They were approved to have their annual convention at the exposition in Philadelphia.

So the country was going to celebrate his flag and burn a cross at the same time.

Now, what's interesting, in 1926, in the North American Review, the grand wizard of the Klan, Hiram Wesley Evans, published a piece defending the Klan's fight for Americanism.

This is as they kind of are speaking against these, shall we say, shithole countries from the wrong part of Europe that are sending folk over, Italians, Irish, Jews, and the like.

They're really, really, really going after Catholics in this moment, right?

And he sits there and lays out in that piece, right,

How can I put this, Tim?

It's so freaking scary because it maps onto the very ways in which MAGA talks today, talking about they can't teach what they want to teach in school, talking about these foreigners polluting the country, talking about America first.

All of this is evidenced right in that moment.

So 1926 is this extraordinary period.

But guess what happens also in 1926?

It's also the moment in which Negro History Week is founded.

So black folk are speaking back, trying to tell a different story in this moment of racist erasure.

Right, but this sets the stage up for Father Coughlin and all of these folk.

We have to begin to think about how the decline of seriousness in the country, how the country gets overrun by surface, by shadows, as opposed to depth.

And, you know, it makes sense that you would get a caricatured version of Ronald Reagan at this stage, you know, a B-list actor to a B-list reality show first.

You know, you see the line drawn and how that then becomes an assault on the political imagination of the country where we are not capable in so many ways to be serious enough to engage in self-governance.

such that an MMA fight is held on the White House lawn or Hunger Games version of competition for high school athletes or something like that.

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