This piece opens with conservative framing devices ('strange new respect,' 'MAGA admiration') and while it credits Jackson's oratory and populism, it characterizes his civil rights legacy as a 'decline' into 'extreme partisanship, racial quotas, and DEI extortionism.' The article draws provocative ideological parallels — Jackson-to-Trump voters, Jackson-Buchanan agreement — to serve a right-populist narrative more than to illuminate Jackson's actual record.
“Jackson in many ways personified the civil rights movement's decline from the preeminent human rights cause of 20th-century America to a network of aging political organizations defined by extreme partisanship, racial quotas, and DEI extortionism”
“He vacillated between working with Republicans when useful on policy and calling them racists when politically expedient”


