Chris Rufo

I mean, part of it is just it's an automatic, renewable expense.

It takes a lot of political capital to say we're going to take this existing program that is benefiting Native Americans and the children of sharecroppers and all of these kind of this mythology around it.

They don't want to be the big, bad Republican who's cutting minority contracts.

But I think the deeper reason is psychological.

And the psychological reason is this.

A lot of these guys, Republican congressmen, Republican senators, for many years were deathly afraid of being called racist, of being called bigoted, of being called cruel, of facing the scrutiny of the national news media.

And at the end of the day, it really took a figure like President Trump to come in there and say, hey, wait a minute.

I don't care what you call me.

I've been through the media ringer.

I'm willing to take the heat.

We're not going to do this.

Get rid of it.

And that's the kind of decisive action that was required.

And my suspicion is that the president, if this were put on his desk, he would be shocked and he would ask his people, why haven't we gotten rid of this already?

And look, I think it is totally defensible legally, totally defensible politically, and most important, totally defensible morally.

We can either have a colorblind country where everyone is treated equally, or we can have a racial hierarchy where people are treated unequally according to their race.

I'm not about that.

I think we have to stop.

That's exactly right.

It's been an about face from Larry Fink.