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“The president is trying to crush the opposition. He’s trying to crush Maine,” said David Webbert, a longtime civil rights attorney in Maine.

When Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, a compassionate conservative who championed civil rights and environmental protections, announced his intention to run against John F. Kennedy in the 1964 election, Didion embraced his candidacy.

Trump’s hostility to social progress and civil rights is seeping into every corner of life — the armed forces, college and university campuses, public schools and corporations.

Tragically, it seems to be working, largely because Democrats refuse to express outrage, or even speak up, in reaction to a vicious reversal of civil rights policy.

Reid did not pull punches or mince words when it came to explaining what this administration’s anti-diversity push means and its attack on civil rights.