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Trump is not making America great again, he is dismantling America’s greatness brick by brick

By Alon Ben-Meir - posted Tuesday, 18 February 2025


The targeting of such a small portion of the population is bigotry, plain and simple, which Trump exemplifies as he is trying to legislate them out of existence entirely, mandating that any government-issued IDs list a strict binary sex rather than gender identity. He is ignoring the fact that even biological sex itself is not a strict binary. This order seeks to put transgender people at serious risk, as many have already been verbally and physically attacked for their gender expression not matching what others perceive, correctly or incorrectly, to be their biological sex.

Transgender people have every right to express their gender identity however they see fit, and no government can legislate how these individuals should live their lives. Their rights and, indeed, their safety are now threatened as they have never been before, courtesy of Trump's obscene orders.

Many of Trump's unlawful orders will be legally challenged and will end up at the Supreme Court. The question is, will the majority-conservative Supreme Court Justices live up to their sacred impartiality to protect and defend the Constitution that they have sworn to uphold, or bend to the whims of an authoritarian felon who uses his executive orders to satiate his voracious lust for power? Although he is currently trying to ignore federal court orders, the question is how far Trump will, in fact, go to impose his authoritarian will.

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If Trump is allowed to pursue his disastrous agenda, he will not make America great again. America is already a great, unmatched nation. What Trump is doing is dismantling America's greatness brick by brick and demolishing the American Dream, which countless people near and afar yearn to experience.

We must stand up to these hateful and unlawful acts and demonstrate that the American people are united in the most solemn quest to protect our democracy and the values that this country has held dear for nearly 250 years.

 

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Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He teaches courses on international negotiation and Middle Eastern studies.

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