As the Trump Administration seeks to dismantle DEI initiatives, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed New York Times best-selling author and former president of the progressive think tank Demos, Heather McGhee, to The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday to help him make sense of it. During a discussion on Trump’s “shakedown” of elite law firms, McGhee would argue that it is easy for her to call Trump a dictator not only because of the history of racism in the U.S., but because Jim Crow-like systems still exist today.
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She would go on to claim that Trump’s battles with law firms that have government contracts over their DEI policies are all part of a master and sinister plan, “Of course, strategically, if I want to be a dictator, first, destroy the lawyers and bring them to your side. Second, capture the media. Third, disrupt the universities… When the judges who are in the same class as these big law firm partners are looking around and seeing the people who usually come, you know, and go to trial in front of them yielding without even putting up a fight, that influences the judiciary. So, this is all about a sectoral approach to bring the entire society under heel.
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