The Biggest Policy Change of the Century

Article author: 
Christopher Caldwell
Article publisher: 
The Free Press
Article date: 
29 January 2025
Article category: 
Our American Future
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President
society
political correctness
race
Western Civilization
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... last Tuesday he [President Trump]  repealed affirmative action by executive order...

For half a century, affirmative action has been the federal government's principal instrument for carrying out desegregation, the longest and costliest moral crusade in American history. After the 1970s it was adapted to liberation movements... Supreme Court justices anguished over the way its call for special consideration of minorities might clash with the letter of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred racial discrimination. Over the past decade affirmative action became the hammer of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement, which grew so unpopular...

Trump's decision to repeal it is the most significant policy change of this century...

Affirmative action is mentioned in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But the program as we now understand it was launched... with Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246. The president ordered companies and institutions doing business with the government to have activist nondiscrimination policies...

Now Trump has done what Reagan would not. His repeal came via three executive orders... The first overturned dozens of Biden decrees... The second ended all initiatives, offices, contracts, and employees connected to DEI, which Trump referred to as "illegal and immoral discrimination programs."...

... In an order called "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity," Trump repealed a variety of executive orders, including 11246...

... it became obvious to the public that changing anything would require dismantling everything.

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