I try to teach my students about the future of American social justice. What am I to make of Trump's plans: cutting scores of necessary federal programs which benefit millions to keep tax cuts for the rich and powerful, /1
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Empowering an unstable, unaccountable gazillionaire to decide who gets to work for the government, mindless of the necessary expertise and experience, /2
Proposing to ignore the clear language of the Constitution he took an oath to protect and defend by heedlesly declaring who is and is not a citizen and by impounding money duly authorized by Congress, /4
The montrousness of these plans are not unparalleled in US history (Manifest Destiny, slavery, the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, Secession, Jim Crow, red-lining, the Vietnam War, etc.). But they are nevertheless shocking. /7
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