OPINION
PAUL GOTTFRIED: Trump Is Leading A New Legacy
Paul Gottfried
Professor Emeritus, Elizabethtown College
April 22, 2025 11:08 AM ET
Christopher Rufo, whom the New York Times has unintentionally complimented as “the anti-DEI crusader,” praises Donald Trump for trying to make our anti-discrimination regime more honest. According to Rufo, if such a form of government intervention must exist, the right has decided “it should be one of its own making.” Thus, Trump is withholding money from higher education for not reining in anti-white bigotry. He is forcing Ivy League institutions to live by those rules of nondiscrimination that they claim to embrace. “The terms of this debate have now changed. The president has ensured that the civil-rights regime will no longer be a one-way lever.”
There is a lot to unpack here, but let me begin by pointing out that historians and legal scholars on the right are beginning to view our government since the 1960s as an increasingly harsh anti-discrimination regime. Christopher Caldwell’s study The Age of Entitlement: America since the 1960s provides food for thought on this topic. Since the appearance of Caldwell’s eye-opening work in January 2021, other critics have been examining a repressive regime that is allegedly saving people from insensitive white American males. This regime, built on congressional and state laws, was designed to prohibit discrimination against blacks and women. However well-intentioned the original legislation may have been, notes Caldwell, it led to the creation of a vast bureaucracy and to intrusive regulations purporting to guard us against “prejudice.”
Similar laws and officialdoms have appeared in Western Europe, perhaps in imitation of ours, as I note in my book, After Liberalism. But these measures in Europe typically involve severe restrictions on speech, something that our First Amendment was meant to protect us against. That longtime protection in the US, however, has periodically eroded with governmentally endorsed crusades against “hate speech.”
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READ MORE: https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/22/paul-gottfried-antidiscrimination-regime-dei-trump/
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