Promoting a New Segregation
The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.
The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again. The MAGA movement has always evoked nostalgia for a mythical pre-civil rights America where racial and gender hierarchies went unquestioned. Many of MAGA’s forebears—including the Heritage Foundation—laid the groundwork with decades of curated discourse that recast desegregation as anti-white racism. To succeed, this revisionist project required a cultural common sense that expects inequality and a corresponding legal regime that protects white male over-representation. Trump is delivering. …
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