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DAVID MARCUS: How Democrats sneaked in reparations, and how they’ll protect em

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May 3, 2026

The battle over reparations for racial minorities in the United States has grown somewhat quiet in recent years, but it’s not because proponents of it have surrendered. It’s because they have already won.

The list of ways in which our government redistributes wealth to minorities is long, as you’ll see below, but first, it’s worth paying attention to something that Democratic strategist James Carville said recently.

Referring to packing the Supreme Court and making Washington DC and Puerto Rico states, should Democrats retake power, the cagey old Cajun said, “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”

I posit that this is precisely what Democrats have done in regard to reparations.

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Take for example, marijuana legalization laws in states such as New York and Minnesota that offer loans, often forgivable, and training only to black and brown people, or other “special equity” groups,

This is millions of tax dollars being given to people solely on the basis of their race.

The excuse Democrats use is that black and brown people were disproportionately harmed by harsh drug laws, but obviously the vast majority have never been arrested for drug crimes.

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And it’s not just the weed business. In Democrat enclave after Democrat enclave, these set-aside programs exist to help these “special equity” groups get a leg up in businesses like, oh, I don’t know, day care centers and hospices. In states like Minnesota and California, we have seen how this form of reparations easily falls prey to fraud.

Another form of reparations that has saturated our society over the past two decades is mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training both in the public and the private sector.

When a state or locality mandates, as almost every blue one does, that every government employee has to watch an hour-long video about how not to be a racist, with a quiz at the end, that costs millions, almost exclusively paid to black- and brown-owned providers.

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Even reparations studies themselves, of which there has been an endless supply and which all seem to land on needing more money for more studies is a form of reparations.

Democrats aren’t even particularly shy about their use of reparations anymore. New York Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, as a candidate, defended his plan to heavily tax “wealthier and whiter,” neighborhoods, by saying, “That is just a description of what we see right now. It’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed.”

For some reason, Madman Mamdani thinks that if he phrases it this way he isn’t saying, “White people have too much money so the government will give some of it to non-White people,” but that is exactly and literally what he is saying.

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This is how normalized and regular the use of reparations has already become in our society.

Democrats are not trying to bring about reparations, they already have. What they are doing now is protecting the multi-billion-dollar industries that their backdoor reparations have already created.

Sadly, most of the people who benefit from this de facto form of reparations are a handful of activists, who like those who ran Black Lives Matters, often enrich themselves in the guise of fighting systemic racism.

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The vast majority of black and brown people do not benefit from a small number getting cheap forgivable loans to sling weed, only the people who take that money do.

Nobody has ever been brought out of poverty as a result of a DEI workplace training requirement, but those providing the services live high on the hog.

And all of these beneficiaries, though a small slice of the black and brown population, are generous donors and organizers for the Democratic Party.

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Nice work if you can get it.

Although most of this form of reparations is occurring on the state and local level, that doesn’t mean there is no role for the federal government to play. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon has shown a willingness to go after these programs.

More needs to be done. This normalization that Democrats have pushed, of the government treating people differently based on the color of their skin, must be pulled out by the roots.

And as Carville pointed out, let this serve as a warning: The Democrats don’t have to tell you how they will fundamentally harm our country before they actually do it.

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“Extreme Makeover” is a brand of reality show that has succeeded both when applied to participants who needed to change their health habits, hygiene and clothing choices, as well as when applied to participants’ homes, which had disrepair or structural issues that needed fixing.

The programs “worked” because the premise is simple: People and domiciles — no matter how messed up — can change, can be made attractive and functional with the right amount of attention, care and craftsmanship.

Now comes a new offshoot: “Extremist Makeover.”

While not yet a reality show on a streaming platform, this reboot is far advanced in development within the Democratic Party.

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The Democratic candidate for the United States Senate seat in Maine — currently occupied by perhaps the most moderate, intelligent, trusted, hard-working and admired senator on both sides of the aisle, Sen. Susan Collins — is going to be oysterman Graham Platner.

Platner is not a “liberal.” He’s not a “leftist.” He’s an extremist. Platner is from that land “beyond the fringe” in American politics that occasionally throws up onto the election beaches a candidate from the wacky left or wacky right after an intra-party primary campaign, a nominee who simply doesn’t play within the “10s,” much less the “40s,” of American political football.

The extremists luck out in the primary for a variety of oddball reasons, and then their parties pretend to be surprised when their oddball nominees get thumped in the general election.

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So, I predict, it will turn out with Mr. Platner, whose many, er, idiosyncrasies have been tumbling into public view for a couple of months now.

Platner’s most famous “eccentricity” thus far is his “Totenkopf” tattoo of the death’s head worn proudly during the Nazi era by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS), particularly by the SS-Totenkopfverbaende, one of the original three branches of the SS, along with the Allgemeine SS and the Waffen SS. The SS-Totenkopfverbaende were guards at the concentration-extermination camps. Of many vile symbols of that regime, this is the equal of any of them when it comes to projecting evil purpose and deadly, arbitrary killing. Asking for that tattoo is a deliberate choice. Keeping it for years and years is another.

So, too, are the many Reddit posts Mr. Platner has made over his life, which cover the waterfront of bigotries and what we used to quaintly call “hate speech,” but which Democrats now call either “opportunities to grow,” or, more truthfully, auditions.

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Sen. Collins has faced leftist Democrats before in past elections. In her most recent campaign, in 2020, Democrats nominated the very left-wing Speaker of the Maine House, Sara Gideon. Despite being outspent by more than 2-to-1 (pro-Gideon spending was just shy of $48 million, while Collins’ war chest was $23 million) and being behind in nearly every single major poll from start to finish, Collins won her race by nine points, even though then-candidate Joe Biden beat President Donald Trump by the same margin. So nearly 20% of Mainers in 2020 switched from voting for a Democrat at the top of the ticket to a Republican on the next line in the Senate race.

That’s not just because Collins is genuinely liked and admired across Maine, which she is. Collins is also the powerful Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and thus in a position to help Mainers across the board, from every employee at Bath Iron Works, to every lobsterman or fisherman beset by ridiculous federal regulations, and every year-round Mainer beset by soaring heating costs in the winter because of Democrats obstructing pipeline permitting that would significantly lower the cost of getting energy to the Pine Tree State.

And it’s also not just because Collins is so widely respected that she is on the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, where only the most trusted senators from both parties serve, superintending the nation’s most secretive programs.

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It is also because Collins is a superb politician, always out and about across her state asking Mainers for their vote.

Collins is from “the County,” the enormous and farthest-north Aroostook County, which is as authentically Maine as one can get. Collins is also the equal of any example of a gracious and welcoming elected official who understands that the job of senator is to serve her constituents, not grandstand on far-left podcasts.

Collins and Platner could not be more different. It is possible that “normal” and welcoming Maine wants a radical, verbal bomb-throwing extremist as its next senator. But I don’t think so.

It’s rare to have a Susan Collins represent your state from positions of power and influence and do so with class and humility. To trade that in for a death’s skull and online bigotry doesn’t seem like a bet Mainers are going to make, no matter how many millions of dollars the Antifa-adjacent pour into the race from the far-left spread across the country.

Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and host of “The Hugh Hewitt Show” heard weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh drives Americans home on the East Coast and to lunch on the West Coast on over 400 affiliates nationwide, and on all the streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel’s news roundtable, hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcasting. This column previews the lead story that will drive his radio/ TV show today.

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