Everyone but the credulous media seems to understand what\u2019s behind Trump\u2019s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion<\/p>\n
It took fewer than 12 hours after Wednesday\u2019s disastrous plane collision at DC\u2019s Reagan National airport for Donald Trump to display his most powerful instinct: blaming others, whether the real guilty party is himself, one of his cronies, unknown, or no one at all.<\/p>\n
In a press conference<\/a> on Thursday morning, the president moved quickly through the scripted \u201cbonds of affection and loyalty that unite us all\u201d, the heartbreak and \u201csolace in the knowledge that their journey ended not in the cold waters of the Potomac, but in the warm embrace of a loving God\u201d. Then he got down to business, naming his always-prime suspect, after \u201cillegal aliens\u201d: diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyone but the credulous media seems to understand what\u2019s behind Trump\u2019s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion It took fewer than 12 hours after Wednesday\u2019s disastrous plane collision at DC\u2019s Reagan National airport for Donald Trump to display his most powerful instinct: blaming others, whether the real guilty party is himself, one of his cronies, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}