Sunday, March 23, 2025

Trump's 2025 Seeks to Reverse LBJ's 1965

President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights legacy, rolling back protections that have shaped American life for nearly six decades.

Why it matters:

Backlash to the racial justice movement of 2020 has overshadowed a more fundamental, long-standing conservative goal:

Turning back the clock on the sweeping societal changes of 1965.

Comments

"This is not as much about dismantling the policies of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama or Joe Biden," Mark K. Updegrove, the LBJ Foundation's president and CEO, tells Axios.

"It's dismantling the Great Society."

The big picture:

Two months into his term, Trump already has overturned, weakened or targeted LBJ policies on voting rights, desegregation, the environment, immigration, education, affirmative action and health care."

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Republicans were Corporate Stooges back in the day, long before they changed the Law and made all politicians subject to Corporate blackmail by making money into speech.

Trump is their last chance to turn back the clock on progress towards becoming a Great Society.

A society that had values and virtues; that is not merely a dumpster fire for the wealthy to feed off of.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-23 05:52 PM

worth noting from much more at the AXIOS thread link article...

"Within hours of taking office, Trump revoked LBJ's 1965 executive order mandating "equal opportunity" for people of color and women in the recruitment, hiring and training of federal contractors.

Trump's new order triggered sweeping changes to anti-discrimination rules " including a little-noticed memo stating that the federal government no longer would unequivocally prohibit contractors from operating "segregated facilities."

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Also a video on the article and 'Christian' White Nationalism (Oxymoron Alert!):

www.youtube.com

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-23 06:06 PM

Civil Rights have been a thorn in the side of the CisHet Conservative European Male.

Especially those who believe God hand delivered the Bible to Trump to sell to Americans. (Printed in China)

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-23 06:24 PM

Try 1865, idiot.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-24 08:06 PM

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