EDDIE GLAUDE:

Yes.

I think, first, we need to understand the problem. I think many people read the election of Donald Trump as a kind of triumph, when, in fact, I think it's an indication of a crisis, that in some ways the demographic shifts in the country have created all sorts of anxieties, as well as the kind of bankruptcy of an economic philosophy that's left — that's really eviscerated workers, black, white, brown, throughout the country.

And so, when you have moments of crisis, communities often consolidate themselves by scapegoating others. And usually that scapegoating, at least in the context of the United States, has taken violent form. And so not only are people scapegoating Muslims, African-Americans LGBTQ communities, right?

They're trying — in doing so, they're trying to draw the boundaries of a community that's in some ways in crisis. So, how do we respond to it? Well, we respond to it through the political process. We respond to it by organizing, by in some ways making clear our principled commitment to democracy.

And that's going to be messy. It's going to require some hard arguments, with the understanding that some folks are going to disagree with us. It's going to require some protests. It's going to require civil disobedience. It's going to require actions at the polls. It's going to require actions in our community.

So, in other words, what we need to do is kind of organize ourselves to put forward a vision of America that runs counter to what we're seeing now. And that's going to be hard. It's going to be difficult, and it's not going to be easy. But we have to do it.