It was about a month ago when Axios reported that in a prospective second term for Donald Trump, his team intends to “dramatically change the government’s interpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on ‘anti-white racism’ rather than discrimination against people of color.” Asked for comment, the Republican’s campaign didn’t exactly deny its interest in rolling back policies designed to address systemic racism.
The former president, his spokesperson said, “is committed to weeding out discriminatory programs and racist ideology across the federal government.”
A Washington Post analysis explained soon after that, in context, “discriminatory programs” referred to “those that attempt to address systemic racial disadvantages. It is an evolution of the idea that affirmative-action policies meant to eliminate those imbalances are, in effect, racist against White people.”
It was against this backdrop that Time magazine’s Eric Cortellessa asked Trump directly whether he agrees with his followers who are convinced that “anti-white racism now represents a greater problem in the country than anti-Black racism.” He didn’t exactly answer the question, at least not initially, choosing instead to complain about unnamed Biden administration officials.
“They’re against Catholics,” the presumptive GOP nominee said. “They’re against a lot of different people. They actually don’t even know what they’re against, but they’re against a lot.”
Got it. The Catholic president has hired a team of officials who don’t like Catholics and have lost track of who else they don’t like. Thank goodness we have Trump to explain these complex issues with such great clari