The efforts of Donald Trump and his Project 2025 Conaservertive minions have the above goal’s….
And they have got help from even the US Supreme Court….
The efforts ARE to undo other President’s actions to help those not as Rich and Well off….
Efforts to change what America IS TODAY….
It Won’t stop things…
But just make things more difficult….
And require people to go BACK out to the streets like they have done over and OVER Before...
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.
- The Trump administration’s aggressive push to reverse LBJ’s signature achievements could radically alter how communities of color confront discrimination in a diversifying America.
- “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.
- Within hours of taking office, Trump revoked LBJ’s 1965 executive ordermandating “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.”
Flashback: The Texas-born LBJ won the 1964 election in one of the biggest landslides in U.S. history, with comfortable Democratic majorities in the House and Senate less than a year after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
- 1965 marked “the high tide of the Great Society,” Updegrove told Axios, referring to Johnson’s vast domestic agenda aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.
- “If you look at just the laws in that year alone, it’s breathtaking.”
1965: Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act after the attack on unarmed peaceful demonstrators in Selma, Ala. He had encouraged the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to march for voting rights to sway the public.
- 2025: Republicans in Congress have blocked attempts to reauthorize elements of the Voting Rights Act, while Trump has pushed for national voting restrictions as part of his false claims of rampant election fraud.
1965: Johnson signed the Higher Education Act, creating scholarships and low-interest loans for Black, Latino, Native American and low-income white students.
- 2025: Trump is seeking to eliminate the Department of Education and has waged war on universities, slashing federal funding and launching investigations into 45 colleges over their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices. The crackdown has endangered Black and Latino student groups founded during LBJ’s era.
1965: LBJ signed legislation creating Medicare and Medicaid, two pillars of the U.S. social safety net.
- 2025: Trump has promised not to cut either program, but House Republicans are eyeing major changes to Medicaid to pay for roughly $4.5 trillion in tax cuts.
1965: LBJ signed a bill abolishing the racist national origins quota system for immigration.
- 2025: Trump is considering a travel ban on as many as 43 countries, expanding restrictions he imposed in his first term as he cracks down on both legal and illegal immigration.
Zoom out: Johnson’s Great Society has always been opposed by small-government conservatives, who argued that its programs went too far in expanding the federal bureaucracy and executive authority.
- Some conservatives argued that racial integration was anti-Christian and claimed it infringed on religious freedom.
- Others have rejected the argument that scrapping DEI policies amounts to a reversal of anti-segregation laws, or that “election integrity laws” suppress the voting rights of communities of color…
image…Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Getty Images
In the continuing effort of the Republican cult to lavish their adulation on the owner of the Republican Party , the cultists are proposing…
Putting Trumps face on the hundred dollar bill,creating a new $250 bill with dear leaders face on it,making the Rapists birthday a federal holiday, renaming Dulles airport after the thief and carving the face of the domestic terrorist on Mount Rushmore.
All of the above have been introduced in the House in the past two months.
And have NO CHANCE in the US Senate
Wow! I wouldn’t have known that!
The point was not that this silliness has a “ chance”
It was that such shows the slavish servile behavior of the Republican cult.
They ARE..,,.
Agreed
They HAVE drank the Kool-Aid…
I am more cynical as to if they are true Kook Aid drinkers. They are playing up to the MAGA base and of course to Trump himself because they do not want to get on his bad side in regards to a potential primary challenge and may be looking for other political advancement.
They know these things will not pass and probably would not really want them to but are just playing the politics game.
That might be Tooooooo Late
Special Elections could give the House to the Democrats by the same slim margin
1. What are you talking about? What special elections? Where? When?
2. This has zero to do with the point I made.
Florida has TWO coming…..
1 and 6 CD’s
I think Arizona has one also….
Long shots for Democrats….
But?
The vacant seats in Houston and Tuscon were held by Democrats. They will win those.
The special elections in Florida are beyond “longshot” for Democrats. Less than 5 percent,
The special election in Upstate New Yotk has maybe a 15 percent chance for Democrats.
Bottom line- this isn’t going “change the House.”
So far?
Except for some anecdotal stories of individual Republicans upset with Trump over some of these firings?
I’ve seen no actual evidence of any widespread anti Trump feelings or actions among people who call themselves Republicans.
What about the NY seat ?
What about it?
And what’s that have to do with my point?
MAGA IS About Doing WTF They want….
Getting America BACK to the days when ‘White Males Was Right’….
Putting Women, Blacks, Latino’s. Gays, BACK in their PLACE….
America strutting its Stuff…
Currently Led by former NYC Real Estate guy, with numerous bankrupies, Entertainer and Convicted Felon that STILL owes NY and a sexually harassed woman OVER $500 Million, and who is currently being sued Civilly for his actions Jan. 6, 2021…
And IS the fucking America President who is a egomaniac , reversed wired, attention deficited, numb nut…
“Make America Great!”
What Consittuion?
What was THAT?
David French: First, I sincerely doubt that most Republicans think or believe that Trump has done anything illegal so far. Right-wing media is full of legal talking heads telling their loyal audiences that the various district judges are lawless. The right is even attacking Amy Coney Barrett, calling her a grifter or a RINO for exercising her independent judgment.
We’ve seen this pattern throughout the Trump years. Trump will advance an illegal or unconstitutional policy, MAGA lawyers will spring to MAGA media to rationalize and justify it, and then, when even conservative judges or justices block Trump’s actions, they scream that the courts are lawless, not Trump…..
More…
Essentially MAGA hates the Constitution of the United States.
And they don’t even know that they do!