© Cedar Attanasio/APProtesters opposing critical race theory in classrooms, outside the offices of the New Mexico Public Education Department's office January 4, 2023, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the US
The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and Obama administrations, and giving substance to the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in
Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services (2025) that whites, men, and heterosexuals are not held to a higher standard in discrimination cases.
This is a time for rejoicing, tempered by concern that the administration will not have time to complete its work, and that its reliance on executive orders, rather than legislation and consent decrees, will allow the next Democratic president to rip asunder President Trump's laudable accomplishments.
Despite more than a century of Supreme Court decisions forbidding discrimination on the basis of race, Democrats generally, and progressives specifically, have inverted President John F. Kennedy's executive order establishing affirmative action. Intended to bring an end to discrimination because of race, creed, color, and national origin,
progressives instead transformed affirmative action into a system of preferences based on melanin content, and absorbed this once hopeful construct into radical philosophies used to justify bias, including Critical Race Theory (CRT), intersectionality, disparate impact theory, and ultimately DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion).
Comment: Dubious this scenario will happen. Citizens do not need a legality to privately celebrate chosen holidays. Even so, it is not about 'rejecting' Western civilization nor uprooting other religious-specific events. The 50 million animal sacrifice is out of the question. Note: No animal rituals. No religious holidays.