Trump 2.0 Day 2: Illicit drugs are good, non-discrimination is bad

If setting free hundreds of violent thugs convicted of attacking police officers wasn't enough on his first day in office, Trump's second day saw him pardon Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a lifetime sentence in prison after being convicted on several charges relating to his operation of the Silk Road illicit marketplace.

Since his conviction, Ulbricht had become a conservative celebrity of sorts, with defenders rationalizing that he merely operated the Silk Road marketplace (while profiting off it by collecting transaction fees) and didn't himself sell the narcotics, guns, counterfeit documents, and other contraband that changed hands through his dark-web service.

This also ignores the evidence that Ulbricht tried to hire hitmen on at least five occasions. Separate charges were filed but later dropped by prosecutors after his conviction on the drug charges.

Mr. Trump also revoked President Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246, issued in 1965 to implement the Civil Rights Act. The now revoked order prohibited federal government contractors from discriminating on the basis of "race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin". His lie-studded justification claims that his move to allow workplace discrimination was "the most important federal civil rights measure in decades".

And you know what? He might just be correct that this is most significant backslide in civil rights by the federal government since Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the government in 1913. After all, how else could then-treasury secretary William McAdoo possibly be relieved from the burdensome complaints of "irritation where white women have been forced unnecessarily to sit at desks with colored men"?