The Best People with Nicolle Wallace A Mayor, a Military Pro and a Professor on Affluence, Grievance and Greed
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Mar 2, 2026 
Tom Nichols, author and former Naval War College professor, offers national-security and institutional critique. Eddie Glaude, Princeton professor, brings historical and moral analysis on race and democracy. Mitch Landrieu, former New Orleans mayor, speaks from rebuilding and civic leadership. They discuss elites' failures and courage, institutional decay, political grievance, and what to rebuild next.
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Crises Provide Cover For Rollbacks
- Institutions and elites often use crises as cover to roll back commitments they never liked.
- Eddie Glaude notes universities capitulate now, claiming legal fixes will come later while undoing prior obligations.
Use Midterms To Identify Democratic Defenders
- Treat the approaching midterms as a test to separate volunteers who defend democracy from bystanders.
- Nicolle Wallace urges voters to identify who will act as volunteer firefighters for democratic institutions.
Recent Decline Is Self Inflicted And Reversible
- The country's decline since 2000 is self-inflicted via policy failures, disasters, and political choices.
- Tom Nichols highlights a sequence: 9/11, Katrina, recession, and 2016 that derailed U.S. global lead.