"Racial justice: Trump has purged DEI frameworks from government and waged a broad campaign against universities and institutions he views as enforcers of the Biden-era's "woke" agenda. Trump has paired that rollback with explicit racial grievance, arguing that civil rights protections have harmed white Americans while repositioning the federal government as their defender. That shift has coincided with an aggressive crackdown on both illegal and legal immigration, with Trump singling out communities of color - including Somali Americans in Minnesota -"
"Bureaucracy: Biden governed on the premise that expertise and professional institutions deserved deference, particularly after COVID and the chaos of Trump's first term. Trump has rejected that premise wholesale, firing thousands of career officials, imposing loyalty tests across the federal workforce and gutting independent agencies once insulated from political control. "Trust the experts" has become a relic of COVID, with Trump's elevation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other heterodox figures helping upend decades of public-health consensus."
Biden prioritized defending democratic norms, advancing racial-justice initiatives, deferring to professional expertise, and treating climate change as an existential policy priority. Trump has pursued a broad rollback: erasing DEI frameworks, reframing civil-rights protections as harms to white Americans, and coupling that rhetoric with stricter immigration enforcement that targets communities of color. Trump has also dismantled career protections, imposed loyalty tests, and elevated heterodox public-health figures, weakening expert authority. On climate, Trump champions fossil fuels, labels climate change skeptically, and has pushed clean-energy initiatives off the national agenda despite recent major legislation.
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