The Trump administration is hell-bent on “restoring” this country to an entirely fictional time when white people succeeded based purely on merit, people of color got ahead solely because of affirmative action and women understood that they were the inferior sex.
Trump’s hostility to social progress and civil rights is seeping into every corner of life — the armed forces, college and university campuses, public schools and corporations.
Shortly after he took office, Trump fired CQ Brown Jr., a four-star Air Force general and former fighter pilot and the second Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also fired the highest-ranking woman in American military history, Adm. Linda Fagan, who was commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. His Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, canned Adm. Lisa Franchetti, who was chief of naval operations and the first woman on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
All had stellar military careers. But they ran…
