US Trump's 2025 seeks to reverse LBJ's 1965 - Oh no, anyways...

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President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights legacy, rolling back protections that have shaped American life for nearly six decades.
Why it matters: Backlash to the racial justice movement of 2020 has overshadowed a more fundamental, long-standing conservative goal: Turning back the clock on the sweeping societal changes of 1965.
  • The Trump administration's aggressive push to reverse LBJ's signature achievements could radically alter how communities of color confront discrimination in a diversifying America.
  • "This is not as much about dismantling the policies of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama or Joe Biden," Mark K. Updegrove, the LBJ Foundation's president and CEO, tells Axios. "It's dismantling the Great Society."
The big picture: Two months into his term, Trump already has overturned, weakened or targeted LBJ policies on voting rights, desegregation, the environment, immigration, education, affirmative action and health care.
  • Within hours of taking office, Trump revoked LBJ's 1965 executive order mandating "equal opportunity" for people of color and women in the recruitment, hiring and training of federal contractors.
  • Trump's new order triggered sweeping changes to anti-discrimination rules — including a little-noticed memo stating that the federal government no longer would unequivocally prohibit contractors from operating "segregated facilities."
Flashback: The Texas-born LBJ won the 1964 election in one of the biggest landslides in U.S. history, with comfortable Democratic majorities in the House and Senate less than a year after President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
  • 1965 marked "the high tide of the Great Society," Updegrove told Axios, referring to Johnson's vast domestic agenda aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.
  • "If you look at just the laws in that year alone, it's breathtaking."
1965: Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act after the attack on unarmed peaceful demonstrators in Selma, Ala. He had encouraged the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to march for voting rights to sway the public.
  • 2025: Republicans in Congress have blocked attempts to reauthorize elements of the Voting Rights Act, while Trump has pushed for national voting restrictions as part of his false claims of rampant election fraud.
1965: Johnson signed the Higher Education Act, creating scholarships and low-interest loans for Black, Latino, Native American and low-income white students.
  • 2025: Trump is seeking to eliminate the Department of Education and has waged war on universities, slashing federal funding and launching investigations into 45 colleges over their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices. The crackdown has endangered Black and Latino student groups founded during LBJ's era.
1965: LBJ signed legislation creating Medicare and Medicaid, two pillars of the U.S. social safety net.
  • 2025: Trump has promised not to cut either program, but House Republicans are eyeing major changes to Medicaid to pay for roughly $4.5 trillion in tax cuts.
1965: LBJ signed a bill abolishing the racist national origins quota system for immigration.

  • 2025: Trump is considering a travel ban on as many as 43 countries, expanding restrictions he imposed in his first term as he cracks down on both legal and illegal immigration.
Zoom out: Johnson's Great Society has always been opposed by small-government conservatives, who argued that its programs went too far in expanding the federal bureaucracy and executive authority.
  • Some conservatives argued that racial integration was anti-Christian and claimed it infringed on religious freedom.
  • Others have rejected the argument that scrapping DEI policies amounts to a reversal of anti-segregation laws, or that "election integrity laws" suppress the voting rights of communities of color.
Between the lines: Guiding the Trump Justice Department's policies is a broad reinterpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on "anti-white racism" rather than discrimination against people of color.
  • The Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" outlined how Trump could reverse some of LBJ's initiatives, including his order ensuring equal opportunity in federal contracting.
  • The administration also has flagged hundreds of words about race and discrimination that agencies should limit or avoid using as part of its DEI purge, according to The New York Times.
  • Among the purged words: racism, segregation, discrimination, Black, Native American, discrimination and women.
What they're saying White House spokesman Kush Desai tells Axios that Trump is fulfilling the promises he made during the campaign.
  • The president's mandate was "to streamline our bloated government, implement commonsense policies, enforce our immigration laws, and restore the primacy of merit over racist DEI policies so that every American can live up to his or her potential."


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Doubtful. Wake me up when Trump's 2025 seeks to reverse Lincoln’s 1863.
 
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1965 marked "the high tide of the Great Society," Updegrove told Axios, referring to Johnson's vast domestic agenda aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.
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Bang-up job those Great Society proponents have done, too. Why, poverty is a thing of the past and racial injustice a distant memory!

If throwing money at the problem hasn't solved anything in over fifty years, maybe we should try something else.

Fucking idiots.
 
Lyndon Johnson was awarded the Silver Star in world war II for riding in a bomber that turned around long before it reached its target and never came under fire. He was the only person on the mission awarded a medal. He used to wear his silver star in events and meetings with soldiers during the Vietnam war.

If the author looked closer at Trump and his actions, its more than just about the Great Society. Trump is attempting to roll back many of the policies of FDR and Wilson as well. In particular the corrupt policies associated with the "liberal industrial complex". Policies that support the democratic party and democratic party members in or out of office. Its not really about race. Its about cutting the government financial and institutional supports behind the democratic party.

Its about university funding that is overtly political. Its about institutions like USAID which in practice are little more than corrupt political slush-funds for democrats. Its not a rejection of Civil Rights. Its a rejection of DEI.

As the election showed, the democratic party isn't a working-class party. Its a party that represents privilege and the modern American elite. Its a party that cares more about troons than people who work for a living.
 
I hope he does. The Civil Rights act should have never been enacted.
 
"LBJ was the source of many of the problems we're dealing with today"

Thanks for the history refresher, but I'm not sure why we're supposed to be outraged about rolling back his agenda.
 
America was at its absolute pinnacle, relative to the rest of the world, in technology, economy, military might, and culture in 1965. It was respected and even beloved throughout the Western Hemisphere and even in places like Japan, which it had actually nuked twice. We were on our way to going to the moon. The average family could own a house and two cars on one salary. The streets were clean and safe. American values were something to aspire to.

Since 1965, it has been one slow (and sometimes not-so-slow) descent into chaos, madness, filth, and rampant disregard for our laws and culture. America is now closer to being a place like Brazil, with its middle class and wealthy living behind gates while violence and depravity runs unchecked in the streets, than it is to where it was in 1965.

Undo 1965? Worth a shot at least.
 
"I'll have them niggers voting Democrat for the next hundred years!"

Well it worked, all it cost was the total destruction of black culture and family structure while plunging black people into a hell cycle of poverty and crime.

So ummmm good job LBJ?
 
The policies enacted because of the Civil Rights Movement and Great Society, especially forced desegregation/integration, the welfare state, and the end of nation quotas for immigration have been an utter shit show for everyone, including those they were supposed to help most: blacks.

Forced desegregation kill off black schools and businesses like black bus lines/diners/theaters thus putting an end to or severely stunting the ability for blacks to build generational wealth and invest in their communities, and forcing blacks to conform to white education standards instead of building curriculums that were better suited to their own needs. It also caused racial tensions to increase, especially in areas where they had died down to the point that those areas were practically desegregated in all but name.

The welfare state severely damaged the black family and began a decline in black morality and civil behavior by encouraging single mothers to have as many children as possible and discouraging fathers to be in the home, which began the issues with behavioral problems and gang culture by having many boys grow up without their fathers in the home as role models and disciplinarians, which has led to the crime and drug problems in the black community. It has made the whole black community lazier and more uneducated as a result, because why work hard to get good grades and find a good job when you can just go on dem welfare duckets?

The ending of nation quotas has caused cultural damage to America by welcoming in people who are culturally incompatible and thus have a much harder time assimilating and integrating with American society, and has also led to rampant illegal immigration. And we have not forced or even encouraged assimilation, and instead our leaders cry about how our "diversity is our strength" which is a lie. You can have a multi-ethnic country, but a multi-cultural society is likely to fail and collapse.
 
If Trump legitimately manages to undo thr CRA I will kiss his feet. That monstorsity is responsible for almost every problem we face.
-Why do I need a college degree for every job?
The CRA essentially made it impossible to just have competency testing because some nigger flunked the test and sued
-Why does the housing market consistantly become a clusterfuck?
Because banks can't tell niggers who make no money to fuck off
-Why does everything need a shitton of paperwork?
Because companies need to cover their ass for CRA suits
-Why are there obvious lunatic drugs addicts roaming the streets?
Because the CRA says it's better that a lunatic rape your daughter and eat your face than be mildly uncomfy in an asylum
-Why does every job have an HR department that constantly micromanages everything?
Because the CRA makes it so literally everyone but the judiciary is held to the standard the judiciary is supposed to but actually isn't. Where the mere appearance of inpropriety is enough to go to court.

TOTAL CRA DEATH, TOTAL HIPPIE DEATH, TOTAL MLK DEATH.
 
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