Eric Holder

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The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · Eric Holder: Institutions Have Failed Us, the American People Have Not · 2 Feb 2026 podcast

And then the question becomes, what is it that we do?

And when people talk about rebuilding, I think that's not a great term.

I think we need to be thinking about reimagining and to come up with ways in which we make better the system than certainly we get left with, but even better than the one that Donald Trump inherited

And so it's going to mean making people focus on issues that are painful to confront.

Race may be chief among them.

You know, I gave a speech back in, I guess, 2015 when I was first attorney general.

I said this was the America was when it came to race, a nation of cowards.

And what I meant by that is that we are afraid on the African-American side, Hispanic side, the white side, we're afraid for whatever reason, reluctant to confront issues of race.

And if we want to make real racial progress, we have to be prepared to ask ourselves some difficult questions and face some hard truths.

The erasure that these folks are engaged in means you just sweep to the side and

questions issues that ultimately we're going to have to deal with people got to remember this is a nation that by i think 2043 now where whites will be a numeric minority in this country our diversity can be a strength for this nation make us better stronger than more homogeneous nations or it can be something

that is used as a political tool to divide us.

And it's clear what this administration has decided to do.

I'm hoping that a successor administration, Republican or Democrat, will look to the ways in which we strengthen our nation and embrace not only our heritage, but also our reality.

Think about that.

Right?

Think about that one, okay?

What does it say?

I think it means that, you know, it's funny.

When I was coming down here, I was thinking to myself,

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