This past weekend, former Attorney General Eric Holder tore into President Donald Trump and the latter’s “Make America Great Again (MAGA)” slogan, reports Fox News.
An Overview of Holder’s Remarks
During statements at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington D.C., the former AG spoke about the MAGA slogan:
“This sort of thinking, this ‘Make America Great’ mindset is not only flawed, it’s rooted in fear. It favors an imagined past over a realistic future.”
Holder is not the first critic of the president to imply that “Make America Great Again” contains racial undertones. The former AG then proceeded to question the time period of America’s greatness:
“Certainly, it was not when people were enslaved. It was not when segregation was the law of the land. It was not when women were disenfranchised [and] not when the LGBT community was routinely stigmatized.”
Holder continued his condemnation of Trump by vowing to never refer to him as the president:
“I’ll never call him the president. We will not allow for the dismantling of the social compact forced by Roosevelt and other great presidents between we the people and our government. Make no mistake, we are in the struggle of our lives.”
