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Trump's nominee for the Second Circuit, Steven Menashi, once wrote that, "Ethnic ties provide the groundwork for social trust and political solidarity and, universalist aspirations notwithstanding, continue to do so. At the same time, social scientists have found that...
... greater ethnic heterogeneity is associated with lower social trust. Ethnically heterogeneous societies exhibit less political and civic engagement, less effective governing institutions, and fewer public goods. [ ] Putnam has concluded that greater ethnic diversity weakens...
social solidarity, fosters social isolation, and inhibits social capital. …. These findings confirm that the solidarity underlying democratic polities rests in large part on ethnic identification. Surely, it does not serve the cause of liberal democracy to ignore this reality."
Article available here: law.upenn.edu/journals/jil/a…
Menashi believes it to be a matter of settled "reality" that racial and ethnic diversity is damaging to democracies. And Trump wants to give him a seat on the Second Circuit.
Menashi believes it to be a matter of settled "reality" that racial and ethnic diversity is damaging to democracies. And Trump wants to give him a seat on the Second Circuit.
