By Christopher F. Rufo
Oct. 4, 2020 4:06 pm ET

Trump is right. Training sessions for government employees amounted to political indoctrination.

Moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump during last week’s debate why he “directed federal agencies to end racial-sensitivity training that addresses white privilege or critical race theory.” Mr. Trump answered: “I ended it because it’s racist.” Participants “were asked to do things that were absolutely insane,” he explained. “They were teaching people to hate our country.”

“Nobody’s doing that,” Joe Biden replied. He’s wrong.

My reporting on critical race theory in the federal government was the impetus for the president’s executive order, so I can say with confidence that these training sessions had nothing to do with developing “racial sensitivity.” As I document in detailed reports for City Journal and the New York Post, critical race theory training sessions in public agencies have pushed a deeply ideological agenda that includes reducing people to a racial essence, segregating them, and judging them by their group identity rather than individual character, behavior and merit.

The examples are instructive. At a series of events at the Treasury Department and federal financial agencies, diversity trainer Howard Rosstaught employees that America was “built on the backs of people who were enslaved” and that all white Americans are complicit in a system of white supremacy “by automatic response to the ways we’re taught.”

President Donald Trump isn’t able to get out to rallies and campaign events because he’s in Walter Reed Medical Center being treated for the Wuhan coronavirus.

So supporters have been bringing the rally to him outside the hospital, holding up flags, signs of support and praying for a speedy recovery for the president.

The president issued a video today thanking people for all the support he’s been getting. He had sounded pretty good on a video he put out yesterday, but this video today, he clearly had more energy.

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Over the past four weeks we have seen a slew of federal district court and appellate court decisions impacting the terms and enforcement of state election laws in several states across the country.

As a general proposition, efforts are being undertaken by litigants in numerous jurisdictions to claim that the risk to voters created by COVID 19 is such that (m)any state election laws which impose limits on the ability of voters to cast ballots without having to go to a polling location, or which limit the time- frame within which remotely-cast ballots can be received in order to be counted, constitute violations of the right to vote under the terms of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. //

So you can see where the lower court judges are finding their “justification for rewriting election rules more to the liking of plaintiffs who — in every case I’ve looked at — are Democrat party interest groups.