President Trump is making many changes. Some of our best thinkers are criticizing these changes. Here are a few quotes for your consideration.
Heather Thomas wrote: “So when all was said and done, the only country that opened [its] prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.”
Heather Cox Richardson wrote: “In an even more dramatic reworking of American history, though, the Trump administration has frozen all civil rights cases currently being handled by the Department of Justice and has ordered Trump’s new supervisor of the civil rights division, Kathleen Wolfe, to make sure that none of the civil rights attorneys file any new complaints or other legal documents. Congress created the Department of Justice in 1870…to prosecute civil rights cases.”
Erica L. Green reported for the New York Times that Trump’s team has threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they refuse to turn in colleagues who “defy orders to purge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from their agencies.”
Trump’s team has told the staff at Department of Health and Human Services—including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—to stop issuing health advisories, scientific reports, and updates to their websites and social media posts.
Ron Filipkowski of MeidasNews wrote: “What a ridiculous clown show. Idiocracy.”
Idiocracy.
Lee Hakel
Bowling Green
