The final Friday pundit roundup of the 12 months on the PBS Information Hour featured Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. She was ugly in pink, aggressively channeling the spirit of Jonathan Capehart, accusing Trump of pushing a “white Christian nationalism” and a modern-day Jim Crow complicated on America.
David Brooks started with a centrist take, that Trump’s appeals in opposition to institution elitism clearly resonate “as we lament the horror of what is occurred during the last 12 months, it is way more horrible than I anticipated.” Anchor William Brangham then requested the lefty for her sizzling take:
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR: Sure, two issues actually jumped out at me. And one is the erosion of the rule of regulation. And I see the Trumpification of the Division of Justice, for instance, as a key position in that proper alongside the White Home. He got here in pardoning the January 6 rioters, everybody who participated in that horrific day, however, on the identical time, weaponizing the Division of Justice to go after his political enemies. As an legal professional, this isn’t how I discovered in regulation faculty that the rule of regulation is meant to be applied.
It is routinely shameless for the Left to assert there was no “Bidenization” of the DOJ, there was no partisan conspiracy to get Trump and his buddies and fervent supporters from 2021 to 2025. Then, she performed the Racist Card:
ATKINS STOHR: One other factor I believe you see a terrific by way of line, whether or not it is its immigration insurance policies or the decimation of the federal authorities with the purging of staff to the assaults on universities, is a throughline of race.
It’s this concept that folks inside the nation who’re Black or Latino or additionally Muslim, the Islamophobic side of it, or immigrants, it is solely these which can be deemed those which can be a hazard to the nation. We’ll open white South Africans — open our arms to white South Africans, however on the identical time, the denigration of different international locations as Third World, as lower than, as hellholes and worse.
You see this actual thought that there’s a white Christian nationalism that has taken over the federal authorities in a means that I by no means thought I might see in my lifetime.
PBS liberal pundit finds a “throughline of race” in Trump’s insurance policies, with “Islamophobia,” and “a white Christian nationalism that has taken over the federal authorities in a means that I by no means thought I might see in my lifetime.” pic.twitter.com/bULPQTclEI
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) December 28, 2025
Brooks then uncorked one other lecture on how the uneducated lessons are in revolt, and so “I take a look at this as a second of rupture and restore, that it is ugly to stay by way of,” however we will repair it. So Brangham teed up Atkins Stohr once more with “Who do you see because the repairers that David is craving for?” She then in contrast Crew Trump to….Jim Crow. She’s not refined in her smears.
ATKINS STOHR: After the Civil Battle, there was Reconstruction. That was meant to heal a number of the wounds and produce up the previously enslaved African Individuals to a spot the place they’ll take part absolutely in society. And what did we get? We received a vicious blowback to it with Jim Crow, a rejection of it, this concept that politically folks thought it was higher to say, hey, these are folks taking one thing that belongs to you,moderately than saying, hey, let’s search for a approach to carry up everybody and to guard everybody’s rights.
That is precisely what Donald Trump is doing. He could possibly be speaking to the folks that you simply talked about being left behind, however as an alternative he is saying that these immigrants or these black people or these different individuals are taking one thing that belongs to you.
And that is what’s giving folks the concept that that is unfair. However one factor that I believe, this could’t occur with out establishments permitting it. And I believe this 12 months we noticed the largest establishment, the Supreme Court docket, principally permitting Trump, earlier than the actions that he has taken has even been deemed to be constitutional or authorized, within the quick time period permitting them to go in place….
And so by the point the legality or the constitutionality has determined, little or no has been up to now, the harm has already finished. And USAID is already gone. The Schooling Division’s proper subsequent to it. You are seeing individuals who have been deported to international locations that they do not have household, they’ve by no means been to earlier than. How do you make them complete?
That is too late. So the truth that the Supreme Court docket, because the unelected unbiased department of our authorities, has principally been as a rule a rubber stamp for him is an actual drawback. We’d like our establishments to step up.
PBS liberal pundit Kimberly Atkins Stohr equates Trump with Jim Crow: After Reconstruction, “we received a vicious blowback to it with Jim Crow, a rejection of it.” The federal government denied minority rights. “That is precisely what Donald Trump is doing.” pic.twitter.com/GsnB4PyOIN
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) December 28, 2025
She mentioned this because the Supreme Court docket has denied a number of Trump initiatives, most lately his authorized rationale for deploying the Nationwide Guard in Chicago. Leftists count on each establishment to be as biased as “PBS Information.”
