
Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls “a vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,” assesses Trump and Trumpism since his inauguration on Jan. 20. He focuses on the twice-impeached convicted felon’s attempt to repeal civil rights law, the legalization of discrimination, and the effort to eradicate DEI in the federal government, while coercing states and universities also to eliminate DEI or lose federal funding.