Trump Is Erasing Civil Rights Laws in Ways Reagan Couldn’t

History may not repeat itself, but it is loudly rhyming in the calls from conservatives for President Donald Trump to promote Harmeet Dhillon at the Justice Department.

Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, has been among the fiercest culture warriors in an administration crowded with them. On every major aspect of civil rights law — employment, education, voting, policing — she has inverted her division’s mission from protecting marginalized minority groups to eradicating those protections.