The patrician-to-progressive Republican tradition made these symbolic bows to minority identity after the 60s. (Compare Tom Wolfe’s “Plaques for Blacks”). National American Indian Heritage month was proclaimed in ‘90 by Bush the Elder, Black History Month was '76 under Ford.
Reagan was opposed to MLK, Jr. Day but an assertive Congress established it by veto-proof majority.
Trump is the first Republican President since Bush the Elder to not be Bush the Younger, and “unwinding Republican concessions to nonwhite identities previously understood as token and marginal” is very much his brand
It used to be a gesture to draft off Thanksgiving (Lincoln, 1863) to honor the Indians, now it’s a gesture to draft off Thanksgiving to honor the Pilgrims
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