![]() In virtually every area of public policy, the Trump administration proved a setback for women, people of color, working-class communities, LGBTQ individuals, environmental advocates, and those fighting to expand human and democratic rights. In a similar vein, it’s hard to imagine how destructive a second Trump administration would be, given his first time in office. Ferguson case that would sanction racial segregation across the nation and so solidify an American apartheid system that didn’t end legally until the landmark 1954 Brown v. White - were part of the majority in the crucial and devastating 1896 Plessy v. Three of his Supreme Court appointees - Melville W. ![]() And mind you, the consequences of that second Cleveland administration were devastating. In 2024, Donald Trump hopes to repeat that history in all its ugliness by becoming the second former president to recapture the White House. Yes, I’m thinking of former New York governor and Democrat Grover Cleveland who first won the presidency in 1884, lost his reelection bid in 1888, only to successfully regain the presidency in 1892 against then-incumbent Benjamin Harrison. And he’s the only American president who lost a reelection bid but returned to office in the following election. He sided with the racists who used “states’ rights” to push through undemocratic policies locally. He appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices who shocked the nation with rulings that dramatically took away rights. ![]()
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