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Rolling Back the AFFH Will Not Roll Back Time
I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood…
…Your housing prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down. I have rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!
With that one tweet, Trump made clear that he wants to roll back time to the 1950s, when suburbs were white, women stayed home and men went off to work each day confident that their families were safe from the poverty and crime of the inner cities.
No one should be surprised by this. In addition to being an obvious dogwhistle to his base, Trump is expressing a yearning common to the elderly of wanting to go back to the days of their childhood when life seemed better and simpler. Mainly because they were children and insulated from the realities of life.
Life was also much better if you were white, male and heterosexual. Think of all the strides that we have made since the last half of the 20th century: civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, disability rights. All of these groups clamoring for a seat at the table can seem very intimidating to an old man raised in a lily white suburb by a father who actively discriminated against Blacks and demeaned his wife and oldest son…
