“Pennsylvania was key to Trump’s presidential victory, Westmoreland County was key to Pennsylvania, and District Seven was key to Westmoreland County.”
Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color.
Both this administration and this Supreme Court have proved all too willing, in recent months, to prioritize the individual entitlements and business interests of white Christian men.
Surely most of us, no matter our political bent, feel sad for the entrapped children in both circumstances. But our collective conscience leads us to two different interventions on their behalf.
The racism, nationalism, and misogyny driving the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants is evident to all but a willfully ignorant majority on the Supreme Court.
For those confident in the coming of Judgment Day or in the frictionless workings out of karma, there is naught to be done but wait for history to unfold its glorious purposes.
If American evangelicals can no longer point to the “glory days” when they were on the right side of history with regard to race, then it becomes much more difficult to avoid a reckoning.
It’s not that Republican politicians and strategists had become convinced of critical theory’s questioning of how scientific knowledge is produced. It’s that their desire to undercut the “realist attitude” and their love of uncertainty about the true had appeared to strangely dovetail with some postmodern theorists.
While the socio-political, economic, and cultural climate motivating the work has shifted—the fundamental and death-dealing disregard for black life has remained unaltered.
