Jonathan Capehart

“We'll never understand this country as long as book banning, tip lines and legislation to bubble-wrap the tender White souls among us continue to flourish.”

“We've long known that Trump's theatrics have always been about pumping up his own image, especially at the expense of people of color.”

“Democrats being Democrats, count on those nettlesome conversations about whether Biden will or should run for reelection to reemerge with end-of-the-world urgency.”

“When Haaland speaks, she does so with the humility of a true public servant. But there is something more. She's an Indigenous woman and a 35th generation New Mexican, and her ancestors bore the brunt of the country's founding white supremacy.”

“Newsom's willingness to fight Republicans on their turf is exactly what Democrats need to replicate.”

“In Washington, she has really made her mark. Feinstein has chaired both the Intelligence Committee and the Rules and Administration Committee - positions of particular distinction reserved for the Senate's more substantive members.”

“Women who have successfully run that gantlet to get the care they needed or wanted are heroic. But it's clear they should not have had to jump through any of those hoops to get it.”

“As an out gay Gen Xer who has watched successive generations come out earlier and earlier, I am in awe of the ease with which members of Gen Z seem to confidently glide through this world. That's not to say they don't still face challenges. They do, and the challenges only compound my awe.”

“It's not enough to, say, put up a black square on your Instagram feed and proclaim that Black Lives Matter. You can't just talk about your beliefs. You have to act on them.”

“The right to self-protection, let alone the right to bear arms, doesn't exactly apply to Black people.”

“I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial offense, but who then try to make amends.”

“Biden is a president elected by the people, not a king ruling from on high. He needs a House and Senate that will send him legislation he can sign into law.”

“I mean, who doesn't like a manhood-obsessed hypocrite getting a well-deserved public comeuppance?”

“Look, as an institutionalist who recognizes the power of incrementalism in the slow but steady march to equality, I'm used to seeing the forest for the trees.”

“In our system of equal branches of government, whatever plan the advocates are demanding from Biden will have to stand on its own in Congress.”

“We must not be cowed by the terror unleashed by White men drowning in the deep end of racism, xenophobia and misogyny.”

“If folks wanted Obama to get all the things done they wanted him to get done, they should have shown up at the polls.”

“If Roe and Casey must be overturned because they are hopelessly flawed, then all other cases that rely on their arguments asserting privacy and personal liberty are endangered.”

“Crime has no party affiliation, yet Republicans have spent generations exploiting it and the fear of it for political gain.”

“Things felt so dicey during the Trump years, I half-joked that my husband and I might have to reenact that scene from 'The Sound of Music' and flee the country.”