Critical Trump Theory
I have been searching for different ways to explain just how
damaging this 'hoax' called "Critical Race Theory is to this country
and how successfully the liberal Left has managed to inject it into
the minds of so many because they want everyone to be confused.
So L. Kudlow flipped it to explain how it really does not exist.
Call It the Critical Trump Theory:
Free Enterprise Is a Miracle for Minorities
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun | July 13, 2021
Critical race theory is all the rage among far-left progressive
intellectuals, and at least part of it has permeated mainstream chief
executives, who should know better. Systemic racism, and CRT, along
with something called racial equity, have become both the diagnosis
and the solution.
In other words we need more discrimination to solve discrimin-
ation and it all started 250 years ago by a bunch of white male —
pardon, white supremacist — males. While I have no doubt there is
unfortunately still some discrimination in America, I also totally
reject the idea of systemic racism.
It is precisely the genius of American democracy that has fos-
tered huge and equitable changes in race, gender, color, everything.
The 1619 project sponsored by the crazy people at the New York Times
has been disputed up and down the line by highly respected historians.
As I argued on my Independence Day Special, the solution to what
ails us can be found in the 1776 project, which is about freedom and
the consent of the governed and the authority of a higher power that
makes our system work.
About a year ago, when I served in the Trump administration, I
was frequently attacked for my denial of systemic racism. I continue
to hold that view. And I could never get a straight answer from
interviewers on a whole bunch of networks — CNBC, CNN, NBC, and
others.
If America is so racist how is it that an African American was
elected twice to the presidency. Twice mind you. And during those
two victories was supported by 80 million white voters. That is not
systemic racism. Nor were the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, which
were triggered by Abe Lincoln and continued under President Grant.
Nor was the integration of the United States military by Harry
Truman and the great civil rights achievements by Lyndon Johnson with
large scale Republican help in the Senate. They passed things like
the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act.
The fact that Ku Klux Klan Democrats in the Senate tried desper-
ately to block these reforms, just as they had blocked them for 50
years prior, didn’t stop it from getting done in our representative
democracy.
Martin Luther King has always been a hero of mine for arguing the
importance of the content of our character rather than the color of
our skin. Another hero was Thurgood Marshall, who ran the legal
department of the NAACP. And won cases that effectively overturned
bad laws. Then he went on to become an outstanding Supreme Court
Justice.
Now we come to the economic part of this story. Usually welfare
and entitlement subsidies are at the center of discussions of black
economic development, but it didn't work. Government dependency won
out over black ownership. During the Trump years, though, a new model
was put in place with great success.
In his National Review online article, my friend and Trump
alumnus, Scott Turner, writes convincingly with facts about the suc-
cess of African Americans under free enterprise policies. While Mr.
Trump is often accused of being one of the most racist presidents,
the facts are that black Americans experienced huge benefits from
lower taxes and fewer regulations.
The unemployment rate, pre-pandemic, for blacks reached a record
low of 5.2%. The poverty rate for black Americans hit record lows,
while a total of 1 million lifted themselves out of poverty. Real
median household income for black families rose above $4,000 dollars
after falling over the previous 14 years. Black home ownership
sky-rocketed.
Median weekly earnings grew 4.1% on average, higher than the 3.4%
earnings growth for whites. Scott argues that the 2017 tax cut was
crucial, as was the de-regulation of business and perhaps most impor-
tant, the creation of nearly 9,000 opportunity zones, which attracted
roughly $75 billion in capital for under-served communities.
That’s enough to create half a million jobs, lift another million
persons out of poverty, by using a simple tool where capital gains of
long-term investments were taxed at zero. These are important
achievements by a Republican president and a Republican party who are
always viciously attacked by the CRT, woke crowd. The 'wokes', though,
are wrong.
And their woke economics of welfare and entitlement subsidies do
African Americans over the long run a great disservice and great
harm with poor results. The same holds true for other minority
groups. It’s no secret that Mr. Trump’s reelection attracted a big
increase in African American voters and a whopping gain from
Hispanics.
Give free enterprise a chance, and it will work economic
miracles. Unfortunately, President Biden appears to be siding with
the woke crowd.
From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox News.
I ask God to help everyone understand the motive behind why the
Democrats are so desperate to keep Americans loyal to the corruption
of the main steam media.
Please learn to think for yourselves.
Conservatively,
John
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